by Siriana | Jun 2, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Question of the day: how often will I feel like Victor Frankenstein while I work on CURI this summer? The latest task of formatting data from over 200 premiers was monstrous, however, when we finally uploaded our information into the first draft of a map, I had a...
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 perkin1 | May 31, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Yesterday, to start learning about musical life in 1920s Paris, we read several chapters from several books, including Roger Nichols’ The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris 1917-1929 (pp.6-15, 41-58), Nigel Simeone’s Paris -A Musical Gazetteer (pp.11-21), and...
by Siriana | May 31, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
The mountain of information I had compiled into my spreadsheet seemed insurmountable. By the time I had finished the first three readings we were assigned, I had already collected over 50 locations to map. I felt a bit like Hercules facing the Hydra. My previous map...
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 emmanu1 | May 31, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Creating a map was definitely the most exciting part of my day. Even though the data collection was somehow time consuming (more precisely in finding information about the location and descriptions of each of the Parisian cities, art and cultural places), it was very...
