Music21

Music21 raises questions that reach well beyond the immediate topic. Michael Cuthbert, an associate professor of music at MIT and principal investigator of the Music21 project, which we focus our discussion on today. Music21 is a python library making analysis of music accessible and fun.

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Michael Cuthbert: Michael Scott Cuthbert is the Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor and an associate professor of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a music historian whose work digs into the music of medieval Europe, particularly 14th-century Italy, and develops new computational systems for quickly examining huge repertories of musical scores. He also studies and teaches trends in contemporary music.