Mscuthbert

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Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

Co-Founder and Chief Musical Officer, Artusi, Inc. (www.artusimusic.com)

Computational Music Theorist and Musicologist. Formerly Tenured professor of music at MIT.

Hi! I'm a computational music developer, musicologist, and music theorist, but here simply a music lover. My main fields of publication have been music informatics (computational musicology), Medieval Music (esp. 14th/early-15th century Italy), and minimalism. I was a professor at MIT from 2006–2024 where I taught classes on computational music theory and analysis, music before 1600, music after 1900, and from time to time the music theory. I previously held visiting professorships at Smith College and Mount Holyoke College. In 2024 I left academia to work at my startup, Artusi (named for Giovanni Artusi) which helps instructors better teach (and save time teaching) music theory, and to support my wife who is a professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa—too far of a commute to keep up the Boston->Honolulu route forever.

My Ph.D. dissertation on the fourteenth-century music fragments, worked on at Harvard and on a Rome Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, is online at my website. There's also some papers at Academia.edu

I have written about music in the Black Death and the Great Schism. I started writing the book among the Giottos and friends as a fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti research center (website) in Florence, '09-'10, but now split my time between Boston and Honolulu. From 2012-13 I was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute working on integrating medieval musicology with my software toolkit music21. I occasionally put updates on my website or on my general or music21 blogs.

My students did remarkable work creating pages on important compositions in the twentieth-century as part of my seminars. I'm proud of them and their work. Feel free to contact me to swap tips on WP in the classroom. It's not at all easy to have your students contribute to WP -- but it can be rewarding for them and the project if done right.

Contributions

I have been editing on Wikipedia since October 2005. I have an essay on what I've learned that I couldn't find elsewhere. My contributions: a subset of the boring complete list, from newest to oldest:

Music

New Articles

1. David Fallows -- prominent scholar of 15th c. music
2. P. des Molins (composer) -- late fourteenth-century composer
3. Simone de' Prodenzani -- early fifteenth-century Italian poet.
4. Rulan Chao Pian -- professor of Chinese music, Harvard
5. Willie Anku -- prominent African music theorist.
6. Sant Omer -- unknown composer, known piece.
7. Nicolaus Ricii de Nucella Campli -- little known composer, but a lot has been learned about him recently.
8. Engardus -- 14th c. composer

Significant Contributions

1. Ivrea Codex
2. Tritone -- gad, haven't been able to get that incorrect info about diabolus in musica to stay out. It's been disproven, people, read the literature. No one was killed in the Middle Ages for singing them. The church did not ban them.
3. Piccolo clarinet
4. Rossi Codex -- Beefed up Antandrus's great start.
5. Music History -- proud of the rewrite: was not a particularly useful article before. However, like so many Wikipedia articles, I feel that many of the post-rewrite contributions have contributed negatively to the article.
6. Musicology -- ongoing project; still needs lots of work

Random

1. Pope Joan -- just a bit of cleanup, but my first barnstar, so that was nice.

Academics that I've edited to show notability at AfD

1. Simon Palfrey
2. Claude Cahen
3. Eileen Crimmins -- just for fun, because I hate to see notable professors get deleted at AfD.

In progress

/sandbox: Come play with me!

Newest images, etc.

Voice crossing

Here are some examples I already have from 14th and early 15th century music:

Shows large-scale voice crossing at the bar line. This is an example of a Stimmtausch work, where the voices cross and then exchange roles.

An example of cantus planus binatim--added voice to Gregorian chant. probably late 14th century. A single note of voice crossing.

Just made this one -- I think it does a pretty good job illustrating the subject.  :) The caption should note that if the lower voice leapt to a B, it would not be overlap.

Two analyses of the six-four chord

I started writing an article on the 6-4 chord, but there was a lot of drama and I've set it aside for quite some time. It's a really important article that we're still missing and happy to have someone take it up. -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 18:23, 17 December 2015 (UTC)