by broske1 | Jan 13, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Last week we were tasked to redesign musical geography maps from A History of Western Music (Norton, 2014) and Atlas Historique de la Musique and in groups of two we set out on our cartographic quest. The map below shows the distribution of Italian Music Centers in...
by Reed Williams | Jan 11, 2019 | DUR January 2019
The Atlas Historique de la Musique map of Conservatories, Festivals, and Opera Houses in Eastern Europe and Beyond was eye catching because of its simplicity, but was confusing for the same reason. As many others did with their own maps, our goal was for the map to...
by Isaiah Pressman | Jan 11, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Over the past week, our class has split into groups tasked with the goal of recreating/updating a preexisting physical map in a digital form. We’ve learned about data formatting, digital tools, (Google Maps and ArcGIS online) important stylistic and aesthetic...
by William Beimers | Jan 11, 2019 | DUR January 2019
The goal of our first mapping assignment this January was to take an existing map that says something about music, then digitize it and improve it in ways that would make it useful to a music scholar or a music history student. The map I chose to digitize was the...
by Annika Van Farowe | Jan 11, 2019 | DUR January 2019
After trying separately to fix Les Voyages de Mozart, Izzy and I got together to combine maps. We immediately realized that in trying to solve some of the problems of the original map, we created maps that looked almost nothing alike. Whereas I tried to follow the...
by Benjamin Van Wienen | Jan 11, 2019 | DUR January 2019
In my last blog post, I posted the state of the map that I had made featuring opera houses and companies in East Asia. Since then, I added a few more points that locate centers of opera in East Asia, combined my data with my partner’s, and tidied up the map. ...
