Re-Researching

As we are beginning to piece together our project on H. T. Burleigh, our class has divided into a handful of different specializations in order to create a more polished, cohesive project. I am looking forward to taking on another week of researching with Jessie and...

Research Across the Sea: Finding Burleigh Abroad

The most recent challenge that has popped up in my Burleigh research is tracking down places where his compositions were performed abroad. Over the past week, I have been focusing on rounding out my Paul Robeson and Roland Hayes research, trying to fill in gaps of...

Just Keep… Researching?

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...

Different Perspectives in Research

Conducting research on someone from an era as foreign to me as the early 20th century is really a blessing as much as it is a curse.  Of course, being almost one and a half centuries younger than H. T. Burleigh has left me with a severe lack of knowledge of his...