Title: Civil War Sheet Music Analysis (This will change. I need to come up with a more creative title)
Project Owner: Christina Noto
Summary:
I plan to analyze, contextualize, interpret, and compare two pieces of Civil War sheet music. I want to gain a better understanding of the use of music during the war. I will research the backgrounds of the composers, lyricist, artists and publishers. I will also research the lithographs on the cover of the sheet music. My guiding questions are why are these pieces significant and how did they impact the war effort? After the research phase of my project I plan to make a website possibly using WordPress and StoryMap JS or Omeka and Neatline. I will annotate the image and lyrics.
Bulleted list of deliverables:
• Primary Sources- Sheet music
• Secondary Sources- I have a few recommendations; I need to find more.
• Scanned copies of the sheet music.
• Understanding of Sites, WordPress, Scalar, Omeka, TimelineJS, StoryMap, Neatline, Zotero, Trillo
• Project Schedule
• Research Questions
• Mentors
• Research
Timeline for completion:
Week 3
Continue Research
Understand Music Terms
Answer research questions about the image
Look at more digital tools to potentially use
Week 4
Continue Research
Finish analyzing the image
Start analyzing the lyrics
Continue looking at potential tools, look more deeply into potential tools.
Week 5
Continue research
Finish analyzing the lyrics
Start writing
Get audio for project
Week 6
Continue writing
Start wire framing
Week 7
Finish writing
Start putting content on the website
Week 8
Wrap up all research and writing
Continue putting content on the web. Upload audio
Week 9
Work on website
Week 10
Finalize everything
End of life issues:
Ideally I would like to maintain the website, but after I graduate I think it will be difficult. I will make sure everything is a saved and I have access to make changes. If my project is extremely successful and valuable hopefully someone else will be able to maintained it after I leave. The sheet music collection has a lot of research potential- maybe a class will continue research. I really want people to continue learning from my work.
