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 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)inFlorence, '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 generalormusic21 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.
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:
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.
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.
Musicology -- ongoing project; still needs lots of work
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.
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)