Date/Time
Date(s) - 6 Oct 2014
4:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location
Woolworth Center
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Princeton University Musicology Colloquium
Monday, October 6 at 4:30 pm in Woolworth 102
Michael Scott Cuthbert, Associate Professor of Music, M.I.T., “Fox and Hedgehog Musicology: Digital and Statistical Approaches to Old Problems.”
A reception will follow.
This colloquium is co-sponsored by the Digital Humanities Initiative and by the Program in Medieval Studies.
Michael Scott Cuthbert, Associate Professor of Music, M.I.T., works on music of the Middle Ages, particularly Italy in the time of the Black Death and Great Schism, and the twentieth century, especially minimalism. He is the creator of music21, a toolkit for computational analysis of music and lectures often on digital musicology. Cuthbert’s compositions have been performed by numerous ensembles including the Bang on a Can All-Stars. A graduate of Harvard (A.B. and Ph.D.), Cuthbert is the recipient of the Rome Prize and fellowships from Villa I Tatti and the Radcliffe Institute.