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Music In The Big Apple, Stephen Jablonsky Jul 2019

Music In The Big Apple, Stephen Jablonsky

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This is a textbook designed for a one-semester Music Appreciation course that focuses on New York City. It has an extensive introduction, covers the elements of music, reviews the history of music in NYC, discusses musical genres and musical venues, and introduces many of the leading composers and performers who were born or worked in NYC.


Mapping In The Humanities: Gis Lessons For Poets, Historians, And Scientists, Emily W. Fairey May 2019

Mapping In The Humanities: Gis Lessons For Poets, Historians, And Scientists, Emily W. Fairey

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User-friendly Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the common thread of this collection of presentations, and activities with full lesson plans. The first section of the site contains an overview of cartography, the art of creating maps, and then looks at historical mapping platforms like Hypercities and Donald Rumsey Historical Mapping Project. In the next section Google Earth Desktop Pro is introduced, with lessons and activities on the basics of GE such as pins, paths, and kml files, as well as a more complex activity on "georeferencing" an historic map over Google Earth imagery. The final section deals with ARCGIS Online …