by Thea Brenner | Jan 30, 2019 | DUR January 2019
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...
by Thea Brenner | Jan 23, 2019 | DUR January 2019
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 Isaiah Pressman | Jan 17, 2019 | DUR January 2019
In my work on musicological mapping up to this point, I have found that by far my greatest and most important asset has been persistence. At this point in the term, our class has divided mostly into smaller subgroups each tasked with researching and mapping different...
by Ian Schipper | Jan 14, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Researching HT Burleigh has proven an engaging and inspiring process. My task, as I’ve chosen to accept it, is to find performances of Burleigh outside of New York City. I chose to make this a cluster map to show how many times he performed in a city or in a...
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...