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Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (cuthbert [at] mit.edu) is Associate Professor of Music at M.I.T.

Cuthbert received his A.B. summa cum laude, A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He spent 2004-05 at the American Academy as a Rome Prize winner in Medieval Studies, 2009-10 as Fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, and in 2012–13 was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute in 2012-13. Prior to coming to MIT, Cuthbert was Visiting Assistant Professor on the faculties of Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges. His teaching includes early music, music since 1900, computational musicology, and music theory.

Cuthbert has worked extensively on computer-aided musical analysis, fourteenth-century music, and the music of the past forty years. He is creator and principal investigator of the music21 project. He has lectured and published on fragments and palimpsests of the late Middle Ages, set analysis of Sub-Saharan African Rhythm, Minimalism, and the music of John Zorn.

Cuthbert is writing a book on Italian sacred music from the arrival of the Black Death to the end of the Great Schism.

Download what is almost certainly an out-of-date C.V. here (last modified June 2012)

2010
Changing Musical Time in the Renaissance (and Today), for Festschrift Joseph Connors (forthcoming)

Bologna Q15: the making and remaking of a musical manuscript, review for Notes 66.3 (March), pp. 656-60.

2009
Ars Nova: French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century, edited volume with John L. Nádas (Music in the Medieval World Reference Series vol. 6). London: Ashgate. Reviewed by Gary Towne, The Medieval Review, February 2010.

"Palimpsests, Sketches, and Extracts: The Organization and Compositions of Seville 5-2-25," L’Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento 7, pp. 57–78.

Der Mensural Codex St. Emmeram: Faksimile der Handschift Clm 14274 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München, review for Notes 65.4 (June), pp. 252–4.

2008
"A New Trecento Source of a French Ballade (Je voy mon cuer)," in Golden Muse: The Loeb Music Library at 50. Harvard Library Bulletin, new series 18, pp. 77–81.

2007
"Esperance and the French Song in Foreign Sources," Studi Musicali 36.1, pp. 1–19.

2006
"Trecento Fragments and Polyphony Beyond the Codex", Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University (unpublished).

"Generalized Set Analysis and Sub-Saharan African Rhythm? Evaluating and Expanding the Theories of Willie Anku," Journal of New Music Research (formerly Interface) 35.3, pp. 211–19. [.pdf]

2005
"Zacara’s D’amor Languire and Strategies for Borrowing in the Early Fifteenth-Century Italian Mass," in Antonio Zacara da Teramo e il suo tempo, edited by Francesco Zimei. Lucca: LIM, pp. 337–57 and plates 10–13.

2001
"Free Improvisation: John Zorn and the Construction of Jewish Identity through Music," in Studies in Jewish Musical Traditions, edited by Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library). pp. 1-31. [.pdf]

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