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By Kelli McQueen
Collection Overview
Title: Sever Tipei Music and Papers, 1961-2015
ID: 12/5/78
Primary Creator: Tipei, Sever
Extent: 15.15 cubic feet
Arrangement: Organized in five series: Series 1: Computer Music Project Administrative Records; Series 2: Sever Tipei Personal Papers; Series 3: Coursework and Instructional Materials; Series 4: Performance Recordings and Digital Audio Tapes (DAT); Series 5: Computer Music Project Technology. Series 2 constists of two subseries: Subseries 1: Adiministrative Papers, including grant applications, conference presentations, and faculty appointments, organized chronologically; Subseries 2: Sheet Music, Scores, and Concert Programs, organized alphabetically by title. Series 3 consists of two subseries: Subseries 1: Sever Tipei's Course Materials, organized by course number; Subseries 2: James Beauchamp's course materials and articles.
Date Acquired: 06/28/2021
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of the music and papers of Sever Tipei and James W. Beauchamp. Sever Tipei is an emeritus professor of music composition theory and the director of the University of Illinois' Computer Music Project. James Beauchamp is an emeritus professor of electrical engineering and music. Beauchamp was the director the Experimental Music Studios from 1969-1972, and co-founder of the Computer Music Project.
Biographical Note
Sever Tipei was born in Bucharest, Romania, immigrated to the United States in 1972 and became a U.S. citizen in 1978. He holds degrees in composition from the University of Michigan and in piano performance from the Bucharest Conservatory (now National University of Music at Bucharest). Sever Tipei has been teaching since 1978 at the University of Illinois School of Music where he directs the Computer Music Project. MP1, his program for computer-assisted composition in use between 1973 and 1998, was the first such program to be implemented on a supercomputer ( NCSA 's CRAY X-MP), in 1986. Sever Tipei also had a Faculty Appointment (visiting scientist) at the Argonne National Laboratory between 1994 and 2003. In collaboration with Hans Kaper, Senior Mathematician (now retired), at Argonne Tipei worked on developing an Environment for Music Composition (EMC), that included software for composition, sound synthesis, automatic music notation, and visualization of music in a virtual environment. Tipei and Kaper have also pursued the sonification of complex scientific data. A more recent project, DISSCO, a Digital Instrument for Sound Synthesis and Composition, available on Github.com represents a unified approach to composition and sound synthesis.
Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Acquisition Source:
Sever Tipei
Acquisition Method:
Gift
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Computer Music Project Administrative Records],
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Series 2: Sever Tipei Personal Papers],
[Series 3: Coursework and Instructional Materials],
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Series 4: Performance Recordings and data discs],
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Series 5: Computer Music Project Technology],
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- Series 3: Coursework and Instructional Materials
- Sub-Series 1: Sever Tipei's Course Materials
- Box 9
- Folder 1: Coursework, essays, notes, exams, 1973
- Folder 2: Sheet music and notes: Guillaume de Machaut, Giles Binchois, undated
- Folder 3: Course Outlines for Mus 101, 102, 103, 105, 107, 204, 1978-1981
- Folder 4: Mus 100, Fall 1975
- Folder 5: Mus 103 - Roosevelt University, 1975
- Folder 6: Mus 103, Fall 1993
- Folder 7: Mus 103/113: Proficiency exams, 2002
- Folder 8: Mus 103: "Fundamentals of Music Theory and Practice III", Spring 2003
- Folder 9: Mus 104: musical examples, undated
- Folder 10: Mus 104: handouts and tests, 1984-1985
- Folder 11: Mus 104: syllabus, assignments, handouts, exams, 1991-1998
- Folder 12: Mus 104: materials, 1991
- Folder 13: Mus 104 and 202: final exams, proficiency tests, undated
- Folder 14: Mus 104: assignments and tests, undated
- Folder 15: Mus 105, 1978
- Folder 16: Mus 106, 1980-1985
- Folder 17: Mus 106: Beginning Composition, 1987
- Folder 18: Mus 108, 1981-1982, 1992
- Folder 19: Mus 108: textbook chapters, undated
- Folder 20: Mus 108, 1998
- Folder 21: Mus 132: Papers and slides, undated
- Folder 22: Mus 200, 1982
- Folder 23: Mus 203: Rudiments of Theory 2, 1992
- Folder 24: Mus 204-Roosevelt University, 1975
- Box 10
- Folder 1: Mus 300, 1978-1980
- Folder 2: Mus 303: Music Formalization, syllabus and readings, 1990-1995
- Folder 3: Mus 303: Music Formalization, 1 of 2, 1989
- Folder 4: Mus 303: Music Formalization, 2 of 2, 1989
- Folder 5: Mus 303 and 403: syllabus and course materials, 1988-1990
- Folder 6: New courses Mus 303, 329, 403, 1990
- Folder 7: Mus 304: Supercomputer Assisted Composition; Mus 403: Computer Assisted Composition, 1990-1992
- Folder 8: Mus 304: Xenakis, 1984
- Folder 9: Mus 304: Contemporary Compositional Techniques, Fall 1984
- Folder 10: Mus 304, 1988-1989
- Folder 11: Mus 304 - A, 1 of 3, 1990
- Folder 12: Mus 304 - A, 2 of 3, 1990
- Folder 13: Mus 304 - A, 3 of 3, 1990
- Folder 14: Mus 304 - B, Computer Assisted Composition, 1 of 2, 1988
- Folder 15: Mus 304 - B, Computer Assisted Composition, 2 of 2, 1988
- Folder 16: Mus 308 Project, 1999
- Folder 17: Mus 309: Roosevelt University, undated
- Folder 18: Mus 329 course proposal and Culture Values and Ethics committee letters, 1989-1991
- Folder 19: Mus 340 and Roosevelt University Composition Seminar, 1978
- Folder 20: Mus 320 and National Center for Supercomputing applications, 1989-1991
- Box 11
- Folder 1: Mus 408 B, syllabus and notes, 2016
- Folder 2: Mus 422: "Post Webern Europe", Fall 1981
- Folder 3: Mus 422: "Innovative Notation", Fall 1983
- Folder 4: Mus 448, course materials, 1 of 2, Fall 1995
- Folder 5: Mus 448, course materials, 2 of 2, Fall 1995
- Folder 6: Extramural noncredit courses "Uncommon Musical Delights", 1993
- Folder 7: Overview of the Sal-Mar construction by MIchael Robinson, July 1, 1978
- Folder 8: Professional documents about committee chair and mentoring, 1987-2013
- Folder 9: Insook Choi articles, 1993
- Folder 10: "Loudness" by Cheryl L. Herdon, July 30, 1995
- Folder 11: Students' Master Thesis, 1995-1996
- Folder 12: Auditory Display & Sonification, Audification, and Auditory Interfaces (ICAD), 1997
- Folder 13: Undergraduate Research Initiative, 2016
- Folder 14: "EV Meta-Ontology", undated
- Folder 15: "8 voices for Midi Synthesizer" by Mei-Fang Lin, undated
- Sub-Series 2: James Beauchamp's course materials and articles
- Box 11
- Folder 16: EE 302, Professor Beauchamp, Fall 1982
- Folder 17: Music 4 C: Introduction, 1996
- Folder 18: Music 4C: Unit Generator Descriptions, 1995
- Folder 19: Mus 320-D, "Computer Sound Synthesis", 1986
- Folder 20: Mus 320-D, "Computer Sound Synthesis/Unix/M4C", undated
- Folder 21: Mus 320-D, readings, undated
- Folder 22: Kelly Raymond Fitz masters thesis, 1992
- Folder 23: James Beauchamp and Larry Austin articles, 1993-2001
- Folder 24: James Beauchamp articles and letter to the editor of Computer Music Journal, 1992-2006
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