Moving Forward with Maps

Over the course of this interim term, I have done extensive researching, map making, and web-app building. Today, as a class, we were finally able to present our work to the general public, and wow was it gratifying. When you are buried in folders upon folders of...

My Future is in the Digital Humanities

This past interim studying H.T. Burleigh has been a whirlwind.  Starting out the first week of class, I definitely felt overwhelmed by the magnitude of work we had to undertake.  Especially coming off of the East Asian music mapping project in which I had a rough time...

Farewell, For Now

If there was only one thing I could take away from this interim, it would be a whole lot of gratitude for being only a first year student.  This project on H.T. Burleigh, besides all the valuable information I’ve learned on early American music and composers, besides...

Burleigh Scratching the Surface

As we wrap up a month of research, it feels fitting to reflect on the things I’ve learned over the past few weeks. When I was writing the prose for the introduction of our project page and the “Mapping H.T. Burleigh” section, I found myself trying to grapple with the...

What a Month

In my usual way, I went about starting this blog post by trying to come up with a witty (at least to me) title. Check out hits like On the Media (for you NPR fans), and Pulling Out All the Stops. Seeing as this is my wrap-up of H.T. Burleigh research, this title...

A List For the Next Brave Soul

For my last blog post as apart of the Winter 2019 team, I would like to offer my reflection in the form of a list containing my biggest takeaways from this experience. If this was a CD, it would be a compilation album of all jams. Time is Money… But So Are Breaks:...