(March 26, 1918 Silver City, Utah – December 31, 1993) was an American music theorist whose primary work was Techniques of Twentieth Century Composition: A Guide to the Materials of Modern Music.
Dallin was born in Utah.
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Eastman School of Music and a Ph.D.
from The University of California, Berkeley.
He then was a professor at Brigham Young University from 1948-1955 and at California State University, Long Beach from 1955 to 1983.