MIT

Faculty Member, Music and Theater Arts

Assistant Professor of Music

About

Michael Scott Cuthbert is Assistant 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 and 2009-10 as Fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. 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, 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.

Contact Information

Homepage:

http://www.trecento.com/

Address:

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

 
Journal of the Royal Musical Association
19th-Century Music
Music and Letters

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