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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Download what is almost certainly an out-of-date C.V. here (last modified June 2012) 2010 Bologna Q15: the making and remaking of a musical manuscript, review for Notes 66.3 (March), pp. 656-60. 2009 "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 2007 2006
"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 2001 Unless otherwise mentioned, the writings, compositions and recordings on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Copyright 2010-11, Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert. Web design by M.S.A.C. | Compositions: including Vasarely Patterns for the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Fonts for musicology: Ciconia (14th/15th c.) and ClarFinger (clarinet music). In my copious spare time as a junior faculty member on tenure track, I do web design and programming consulting for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Lectures on the webenChanting: Musical Artifacts in Unlikely Places, lecture March 3, 2009 Ambiguity, Process, and Information Content in Minimal Music, podcast of a lecture to Comparative Media Studies at M.I.T. The Music of John Dunstaple, iTunes podcast from a pre-concert lecture for Blue Heron Renaissance Choir. Just for fun...Biblioteca Cuthbertiana online catalog and library description Mondrian meets Finding Aids in a map of books in my former apartment. Numeric Deathmatch, a game I coded that was taught to me by Jon Wild. More fun in person, but the web interface encourages trashtalking. Javascript Timer, especially useful for timing Rubik's Cube times. Musicology Buzzword Bingo, useful for AMS meetings (requires Bach and Futura fonts) Automatic New Musicology Paper Generator based on the Dada engine The Musicology of the Fallows Catalog O L D E R web pages (may require Netscape 4.0 or older to work) |