by Thea Brenner | Jun 21, 2019 | Thea Brenner
After combing through the performances of H.T. Burleigh spreadsheet, we’ve spent the last two days determining the race of our recorded performers, so that we could create two separate map-able layers. Right off the bat, it was clear that black and white...
by Thea Brenner | Jun 18, 2019 | Thea Brenner
I’m back at St. Olaf and ready for summer research! After spending a few months away from our H.T. Burleigh maps and progress on the musicalgeography.org website it has been surprisingly comforting to be back at the research routine. I am so impressed by the amount of...
by Thea Brenner | Jan 23, 2019 | Thea Brenner, Uncategorized
Greetings from the final week of Music Geography 396 here at St. Olaf College! We’ve split into groups depending on our specialties in the spirit of efficient and equal work responsibilities for this project on H.T. Burleigh. I was in two groups at the start of...
by Thea Brenner | Jan 16, 2019 | Thea Brenner
As a class we’ve now spent a week reading about and researching Harry T. Burleigh. After a meeting where we chose the kind of maps we want to eventually make, everyone got to work on their projects. I am focusing on a map of Burleigh’s performances in New...
by Thea Brenner | Jan 10, 2019 | Thea Brenner
Its been a week now since we first started on this mapping endeavor, which also means that I’ve spent the last week researching ancient organs in France. For our first assignment, I selected a map on the “La Diffusion de l’Orgue dans le Chrétienté...
by Thea Brenner | Jan 8, 2019 | Thea Brenner, Uncategorized
After just three days of class, I have learned much more about the 8th-century organ builder Georgios than I ever could’ve dreamed. After selecting a map to remake about the diffusion of the organ between the 1st and 15th centuries in Europe I have started to...
