cuthbertLab · mscuthbert · Nov 3, 2025 · Nov 3, 2025
diff --git a/documentation/docbuild/documenters.py b/documentation/docbuild/documenters.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         documentation/library/documenters.py
 # Purpose:      music21 documentation helper classes for proper formatting
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Christopher Ariza
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #

diff --git a/documentation/docbuild/extensions.py b/documentation/docbuild/extensions.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         extensions.py
 # Purpose:      Sphinx extension for hiding and showing lines in docs
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013-22 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 # License:      BSD, see license.txt

diff --git a/documentation/docbuild/iterators.py b/documentation/docbuild/iterators.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         docbuild/iterators.py
 # Purpose:      music21 documentation iterators, including Jupyter notebook to ReST converter
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013, 17 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/documentation/docbuild/make.py b/documentation/docbuild/make.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         documentation/make.py
 # Purpose:      music21 documentation script, v. 2.0
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Christopher Ariza
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #

diff --git a/documentation/docbuild/writers.py b/documentation/docbuild/writers.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         docbuild/writers.py
 # Purpose:      music21 documentation writer to rst
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Christopher Ariza
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #

diff --git a/documentation/source/about/about.rst b/documentation/source/about/about.rst
@@ -32,9 +32,11 @@ and papers on algorithmic composition and generative music systems.
 Ariza received his A.B.
 degree from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University.
 
-**Benjamin Hogue** is Former Lead Programmer of `music21` for 2013.
+**Benjamin Hogue** is Former Lead Programmer of `music21` for 2013, working
+on percussion representation.
 
-**Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer** is Former Lead Programmer of `music21` for 2014-15.
+**Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer** is Former Lead Programmer of `music21` for 2014-15. Her work
+included the extremely efficient tree representation for fast context searching.
 
 Additional contributions by many MIT students and visitors and the
 Open Source software community.

diff --git a/documentation/source/usersGuide/usersGuide_53_advancedCorpus.ipynb b/documentation/source/usersGuide/usersGuide_53_advancedCorpus.ipynb
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
    "source": [
     "aNewLocalCorpus.addPath('~/Desktop')\n",
     "#_DOCS_SHOW aNewLocalCorpus.directoryPaths\n",
-    "print(\"('/Users/josiah/Desktop',)\") #_DOCS_HIDE"
+    "print(\"('/Users/j_wolf/Desktop',)\") #_DOCS_HIDE"
    ]
   },
   {

diff --git a/music21/analysis/reduceChords.py b/music21/analysis/reduceChords.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         reduceChords.py
 # Purpose:      Tools for eliminating passing chords, etc.
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/corpus/corpora.py b/music21/corpus/corpora.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         corpora.py
 # Purpose:      corpus classes
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2009-2012, 2014 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 # License:      BSD, see license.txt

diff --git a/music21/corpus/manager.py b/music21/corpus/manager.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Purpose:      Manage multiple corpora
 #
 # Authors:      Christopher Ariza
-#               Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+#               Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2009, 2013, 2015-17 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/derivation.py b/music21/derivation.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Purpose:      Class for storing and managing Stream-based derivations
 #
 # Authors:      Christopher Ariza
-#               Josiah Oberholtzer
+#               Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2011-2014 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/metadata/bundles.py b/music21/metadata/bundles.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #
 # Authors:      Christopher Ariza
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
-#               Josiah Oberholtzer
+#               Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2010, 2012-14, '17, '19-20
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/midi/realtime.py b/music21/midi/realtime.py
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ class StreamPlayer:  # pragma: no cover
     consistent detuning from 30 cents flat to sharp)
     and play a Bach Chorale on it in real time.
 
-
     >>> import random
     >>> keyDetune = []
     >>> for i in range(127):
@@ -215,7 +214,6 @@ def x_testBusyCallback(self):
         '''
         tests to see if the busyCallback function is called properly
         '''
-
         from music21 import corpus
         import random
 

diff --git a/music21/stream/__init__.py b/music21/stream/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #
 # Authors:      Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #               Christopher Ariza
-#               Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+#               Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Evan Lynch
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2008-2020 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/stream/base.py b/music21/stream/base.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #
 # Authors:      Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #               Christopher Ariza
-#               Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+#               Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Evan Lynch
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2008-2024 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/stream/streamStatus.py b/music21/stream/streamStatus.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         streamStatus.py
 # Purpose:      Functionality for reporting on the notational status of streams
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 # License:      BSD, see license.txt

diff --git a/music21/tree/__init__.py b/music21/tree/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Purpose:      Tools for grouping notes and chords into a searchable tree
 #               organized by start and stop offsets
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013-2015 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/tree/analysis.py b/music21/tree/analysis.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         tree/analysis.py
 # Purpose:      horizontal analysis tools on timespan trees
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013-2014 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 # License:      BSD, see license.txt

diff --git a/music21/tree/core.py b/music21/tree/core.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         tree/core.py
 # Purpose:      Core AVLTree object.  To be optimized the hell out of.
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013-2016 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/tree/fromStream.py b/music21/tree/fromStream.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         timespans/fromStream.py
 # Purpose:      Tools for creating timespans from Streams
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013-2022 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/tree/node.py b/music21/tree/node.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         timespans/node.py
 # Purpose:      Internal data structures for timespan collections
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013-2016 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/tree/spans.py b/music21/tree/spans.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Purpose:      Tools for marking off spans of time that optionally contain
 #               elements and which can be manipulated quickly in a tree
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013-2024 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/tree/timespanTree.py b/music21/tree/timespanTree.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         tree/timespanTree.py
 # Purpose:      Subclasses of tree.trees.OffsetTree for manipulation
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013-2024 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/tree/toStream.py b/music21/tree/toStream.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         tree/toStream.py
 # Purpose:      Tools for recreating streams from trees
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013-2015 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/tree/trees.py b/music21/tree/trees.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Name:         tree/trees.py
 # Purpose:      Subclasses of tree.core.AVLTree for different purposes
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013-2016 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

diff --git a/music21/tree/verticality.py b/music21/tree/verticality.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Purpose:      Object for dealing with vertical simultaneities in a
 #               fast way w/o Chord's overhead
 #
-# Authors:      Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer
+# Authors:      Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer
 #               Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 #
 # Copyright:    Copyright © 2013-2016 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert