by Thea Brenner | Jan 8, 2019 | DUR January 2019
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...
by Isabel Kramlinger | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
After three days of DUR in the books, I am officially an expert map-maker. Well, I made a map, but it’s a start! While discovering the exciting world of cartography through revising Atlas Historique de la Musique’s map on Mozart’s Travels, I connected with the...
by Eric Holdhusen | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
There’s something about making a map that feels incredibly nostalgic, and maybe even light-hearted. I don’t know if its simply working with colors and visuals that brings me back to scribbling capitals onto the pictures of states in grade school or...
by hynes1 | May 14, 2018 | Emily Hynes
On an adventure we go, to the American south, where folk songs and tunes await! This spring, I’ve been conducting research on folk song collecting in the American south. Thus far, I have cataloged all of the songs from John and Ruby Lomax’s 1939 Southern...
by Siriana | Jul 5, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
From Spreadsheet to Map Cataloging over 300 performances of Darius Milhaud’s music in one week is no small feat. Our research team spent all of last week locked in the library, feverishly racing to compile as much data as possible so that we could show you this… Okay,...
