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Michael Scott Cuthbert

Michael Scott Cuthbert received his A.B. summa cum laude, A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. A Rome Prize winner in Medieval Studies, Cuthbert spent 2004-05 at the American Academy in Rome. He recent served for two years as Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT.

Prior to MIT, Cuthbert was Visiting Assistant Professor on the faculties of Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges. Cuthbert is a musicologist specializing in fourteenth-century music and music of the past 40 years, particularly minimalism. He has published on fragments and palimpsests of the late Middle Ages, set analysis of Sub-Saharan African Rhythm, and the music of John Zorn. Cuthbert's current project is a book on sacred and secular music in the Italian Trecento. He has also founded a software lab creating new tools for computer-aided music analysis and generative music composition.