 Among his early works, only the Chamber Aria (or the Passacaglia) from 1952 has been published.His doctoral dissertation was completed with distinction at Columbia in 1975 and assisted by the Princeton- and Columbia educated pianist-composer and a Babbitt-Monod disciple, Thomas S. James, consisting of a detailed exposition on the compositional premise of his seminal work, "Cantus Contra Cantum II" for Violin and Cello