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Michael Scott Cuthbert, Assistant Professor of Music, AB '98, AM '01, Ph. D. '06, Harvard University, is a musicologist who has worked extensively on music of the fourteenth-century and of the past forty years, particularly minimalism. His writings include, "Trecento Fragments and Polyphony Beyond the Codex" (dissertation), "'Esperance' and the French Song in Foreign Sources," "Generalized Set Analysis and Sub-Saharan African Rhythm? Evaluating and Expanding the Theories of Willie Anku," and "Free Improvisation: John Zorn and the Construction of Jewish Identity through Music." Cuthbert's current project is a book on sacred music in Italy during the Black Death and Great Schism. Cuthbert is also a strong advocate for the use of computers in musicology, and runs a research group, "music21," that is developing new tools for computer-aided analysis. Cuthbert has won both the Rome Prize in Medieval Studies and the Villa I Tatti Fellowship in Italian Renaissance Studies. As a composer, his works have been performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars and other groups. Prior to coming to MIT, Cuthbert was on the faculties of Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges.

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