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Or, “When did Arthur P. Schmidt print my sheet music?” This is a guide that I created primarily for myself, but which anyone who has a few of Schmidt’s publications sitting on the bookshelf or tucked into the piano bench may find useful. The problem is that the copyright notice on the music displays theContinue reading “Guide to Dating Arthur P. Schmidt Publications”

Having recently traveled down to Washington, D.C., to conduct some research at the Library of Congress, I found myself reflecting on my (thus far) limited yet always memorable experiences digging through our nation’s libraries and archives. An archive can often be rich in information yet also almost meaningless without a historian (like me—or you!) toContinue reading “Mr. Schmidt Goes to Washington”

The path was humbling, the path was steep, the path was sometimes so obscure that I wasn’t sure I knew the way. But earlier this summer, my first scratch-built digital research project went live on the shinyapps.io hosting platform. Written almost entirely in the R markdown programming language, A Visual Guide to Some Nineteenth-Century ComposersContinue reading “Adventures in R”

⚠️ This blog post has since grown up to become an ArcGIS StoryMap called Arthur P. Schmidt & Company: A Walking Tour of Old Boston July 2023