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)

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

A.Mus.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Music

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Swilley, Daniel

Contributors dc:contributor

• Wyatt, Scott A.
• Tipei, Sever
• Magee, Jeffrey S.
• Alwes, Chester L.

• Electro-acoustic Music
• Electro-acoustic Music Analysis

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2014 Daniel Swilley

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49416

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/49416