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 Ian Schipper | Jan 10, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Throughout the process of mapping the musical centers of Italy in the 17th century, I found myself falling into exactly the same pitfalls I predicted. I wanted to map EVERYTHING. In an effort to avoid the lackluster and arbitrary nature of the first map, I tried to...