Problems, current methodologies, and an analytical case study in electro-acoustic music analysis: Lejaren Hiller's Vocalise from seven electronic studies for two-channel tape recorder (1963)

Swilley, Daniel

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Title

Problems, current methodologies, and an analytical case study in electro-acoustic music analysis: Lejaren Hiller's Vocalise from seven electronic studies for two-channel tape recorder (1963)

Author(s)

Swilley, Daniel

Issue Date

2014-05-30T16:42:49Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Tipei, Sever

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Wyatt, Scott A.

Committee Member(s)

• Tipei, Sever
• Magee, Jeffrey S.
• Alwes, Chester L.

Department of Study

Music

Discipline

Music

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

A.Mus.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

• Electro-acoustic Music
• Electro-acoustic Music Analysis

Abstract

This dissertation is an investigation of electro-acoustic music analysis; it highlights the difficulties of analysis, explains some of the prevailing analysis methodologies, and demonstrates the use of a hybrid analysis methodology through an analytical case study. These difficulties and analysis methodologies correlate to electro- acoustic music in general as well as the piece chosen for the analytical case study. The piece selected for the study, Vocalise, is the first movement from a larger work titled Seven Electronic Studies for Two-Channel Tape Recorder (1963) by the composer Lejaren Hiller (1924 - 1994). The study made use of methodologies based on listening (Smalley’s Spectromorphology and Roy’s Functional and Implicative Method) and used computer-assisted analysis (Music Information Retrieval) as a tool for confirming the findings of the listening analysis.

Graduation Semester

2014-05

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