Co-Founder and Chief Musical Officer, Artusi, Inc. (www.artusimusic.com)

Tenured professor in Computational Music at MIT (2006–2024; tenured 2014). Computational Music Theory, A.I. and Music, Music History with Computers.

Hi! I'm a computational music developer, A.I.-based music theorist, musicologist, and music theorist, but here simply a music lover. My main fields of publication have been computer music/music information retrieval (MIR), music informatics (computational musicology), Medieval Music (esp.14th/early-15th century Italy), and minimalism. I was a professor at MIT from 2006–2024 where I taught classes on computational music theory and analysis, music before 1600, music after 1900, and from time to time the music theory. I previously held visiting professorships atSmith College andMount Holyoke College. In 2024 I left academia to work at my startup, Artusi (named forGiovanni Artusi) which helps instructors better teach (and save time teaching) music theory, and to support my wife who is a professor at theUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa—too far of a commute to keep up the Boston->Honolulu route forever.

My Ph.D. dissertation on the fourteenth-century music fragments, worked on atHarvard and on aRome Prize fellowship at theAmerican Academy in Rome, is online atmy website. There's also some papers atAcademia.edu

I have written about music in theBlack Death and theGreat Schism. I started writing the book among theGiottos and friends as a fellow at Harvard'sVilla 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 theRadcliffe Institute working on integrating medieval musicology with my software toolkitmusic21. I occasionally put updates onmy website or on mygeneral ormusic21 blogs.

My students did 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.

I have been editing on Wikipedia since October 2005. I have anessay on what I've learned that I couldn't find elsewhere. My contributions: a subset of the boringcomplete list, from newest to oldest:

1. David Fallows -- prominent scholar of 15th c. music
2. P. des Molins (composer) -- late fourteenth-century composer
3. Simone de' Prodenzani -- early fifteenth-century Italian poet.
4. Rulan Chao Pian -- professor of Chinese music, Harvard
5. Willie Anku -- prominent African music theorist.
6. Sant Omer -- unknown composer, known piece.
7. Nicolaus Ricii de Nucella Campli -- little known composer, but a lot has been learned about him recently.
8. Engardus -- 14th c. composer
9. Michel Huglo -- French musicologist

1. Ivrea Codex
2. Tritone -- gad, haven't been able to get that incorrect info aboutdiabolus in musica to stay out. It's been disproven, people, read the literature. No one was killed in theMiddle Ages for singing them. The church did not ban them.
3. Piccolo clarinet
4. Rossi Codex -- Beefed upAntandrus's great start.
5. 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.
6. Musicology -- ongoing project; still needs lots of work

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

1. Simon Palfrey
2. Claude Cahen
3. Eileen Crimmins -- just for fun, because I hate to see notableprofessors get deleted at AfD.

/sandbox: Come play with me!

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 aStimmtausch work, where the voices cross and then exchange roles.

An example ofcantus planus binatim--added voice toGregorian 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 wouldnot be overlap.

I started writing anarticle 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)