by Siriana | Jun 2, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Question of the day: how often will I feel like Victor Frankenstein while I work on CURI this summer? The latest task of formatting data from over 200 premiers was monstrous, however, when we finally uploaded our information into the first draft of a map, I had a...
by lacy1 | Jun 2, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Today we got to see the result of our hard work on the data cleaning that we did all day yesterday. We pulled together the spreadsheets of compiled premieres for four different composers – Honneger, Milhaud, Stravinsky, and Poulenc – to create a...
by lacy1 | May 31, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
This morning, my team and I created our very first digital map. We put together a spreadsheet of place names from some reading that we did yesterday about music in 1920’s Paris. The authors we read included Roger Nichols, Nigel Simeone, and Jann Pasler. We each...
by devries | Sep 16, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
When I was younger, my dad would always have an atlas in the car when we went on family vacations. Then, he started printing off Google Maps directions. A few years ago, he finally relinquished directional control and learned to trust a GPS device. Now, I constantly...
