Mapping the Musical Renaissance
Emily Zazulia, Professor
Music
Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.
This project aims to develop a new visualization tool for the study of Renaissance musical culture. Recognizing that central information about musicians and musical institutions is scattered across thousands of often hard-to-access documents and published volumes, and appreciating the potential for dynamic, easy-to-use digital visualization tools to offer up new insights into cultural networks, we seek to map the musical Renaissance. The initial phase of the project focuses on the composer Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450–1521), one of the most famous and important composers before Bach.
Role: The student(s) will be responsible for drawing biographical information about Renaissance musicians from secondary sources and entering it into a spreadsheet. The student(s) will learn a variety of skills: synthesizing information from secondary sources, interpreting documents, managing uncertainty in the historical records, and structuring historical data for inclusion in a database.
Remote and/or in-person research is negotiable
Qualifications: No specific skills are required, but attention to detail is essential. While most of the work will take place in google sheets, familiarity with databases would be a bonus. Interest in music history and/or history of the middle ages and the Renaissance is desirable.
Hours: 3-5 hrs
Related website: https://renaissancemapping.org/
Arts & Humanities