User:Mscuthbert

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Wikibreak -- see y'all end of summer. (Maybe). -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 19:54, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


the best picture I've uploaded so far. Three of my babies.
the best picture I've uploaded so far. Three of my babies.

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[edit] Michael Scott Cuthbert

Hi, my name is Myke -- please feel free to drop notes on my talk page.

Assistant Professor of Music at M.I.T.  ; 10-273 M.I.T., 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139

I previously held visiting professorships at Smith College and Mount Holyoke College. My main fields of publication are Medieval Music (esp. 14th century Italy) and contemporary music (esp. minimalism). If you need a reliable source for something on either of these two 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, and the introduction to music theory for music majors.

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.

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.

[edit] Message answering etc.

If I leave for weeks at a time without answering messages, etc. it's because I do occasionally get sick of dealing with some of the less pleasant sides of Wikipedia. Also, I'm trying to cut down, since, though I love editing here, it's not going to lead to tenure.

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

[edit] Contributions

A subset of the boring complete list, from newest to oldest:

[edit] Music

  1. Engardus Good article -- written from scratch.
  2. Ivrea Codex
  3. Tritone
  4. Piccolo clarinet
  5. Rossi Codex
  6. Music History -- proud of this one: was not a particularly useful article before
  7. Musicology -- ongoing project; still needs lots of work

[edit] Random

  1. Pope Joan -- just a bit of cleanup, but my first barnstar, so that was nice.

[edit] 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 professors get deleted at AfD.

[edit] In progress

/sandbox: Come play with me!

[edit] Newest images, etc.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Two analyses of the six-four chord