Finding Aid for Sever Tipei Music and Papers, 1961-2015 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

By Kelli McQueen

[Printer Friendly] | [ Email us about these papers]

Collection Overview

Title: Sever Tipei Music and Papers, 1961-2015

ID: 12/5/78

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

Browse by 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 data discs],
[Series 5: Computer Music Project Technology],
[All]

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