Dodge studied at the University of Iowa (1960–64) and at Columbia University (1964–70), where he was a pupil of Jack Beeson, Chou Wen-chung, and Otto Luening for composition and Vladimir Ussachevsky for electronic music. From 1966 to 1967 he also studied computer music programming at Princeton University. In the summer of 1964 he received lessons from Gunther Schuller and Arthur Berger at Tanglewood. He was also a pupil of Darius Milhaud at Aspen in 1961. He taught at Columbia University (1967–68, 1970–77) and at Princeton University (1969–70). In 1977 he joined the faculty of Brooklyn College, CUNY, where...