User:Mscuthbert



Not editing as much as I used to, but still a big supporter of the encyclopedia.

Michael Scott Cuthbert
Associate Professor of Music (tenured) at M.I.T.

4-246 Music and Theater Arts, M.I.T. 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139

Hi! I'm a musicologist/music theorist (so my friends tell me) by profession, but here simply a music lover. My main fields of publication are Medieval Music (esp. 14th/early-15th century Italy), contemporary music (esp. minimalism), and music informatics (computational musicology). If you need a reliable source for something on any of these three topics, I'd be happy to reach over to the bookshelf and oblige. At M.I.T. I teach classes on music before 1680, music after 1900, computational musicology, and from time to time the introduction to music theory for people who can and people who cannot read music (different classes). I previously held visiting professorships at Smith College and Mount Holyoke College.

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

My current project is a book on music (esp. Italian sacred music) during 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 have done 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.

Please feel free to e-mail me (my_last_name@mit.edu); that I do check.

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:

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 professor s get deleted at AfD.

In progress
/sandbox: Come play with me!

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)