by lacy1 | Jun 9, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
It’s amazing how it can take almost two weeks to really develop the goals of a project. I have discovered that it is through active work that we seem do the best learning and growing. I think even after these last weeks of intensive research, we will still be...
by lacy1 | Jun 2, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Today we got to see the result of our hard work on the data cleaning that we did all day yesterday. We pulled together the spreadsheets of compiled premieres for four different composers – Honneger, Milhaud, Stravinsky, and Poulenc – to create a...
by lacy1 | May 31, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
This morning, my team and I created our very first digital map. We put together a spreadsheet of place names from some reading that we did yesterday about music in 1920’s Paris. The authors we read included Roger Nichols, Nigel Simeone, and Jann Pasler. We each...
by lacy1 | May 30, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
I think my teammates will agree with me when I say that trying to explain this project to anyone outside of the music historical sphere is difficult. In describing it to multiple relatives and friends, and in starting readings on the topic, I have been able to...