Mary Cyr, a musicologist and performer on the viola da gamba, is professor of music at the University of Guleph. She was chair of the Department of Music for 5 years and director of the School of Fine Art and Music from 1997 to 2002. She has taught music history and directed various music ensembles for the past 25 years. Her research interests include 17th- and 18th-century music, singing style in the Baroque era, and the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau. She began teaching music appreciation by distance in 1996, after developing a new version of the course materials specifically for distance delivery. She has also developed online materials for a university course which serves as a sequel to music appreciation entitled Masterworks of Music. These distance courses enroll up to 200 students at a time from across Canada and several other countries. Professor Cyr has also chaired the Senate Committee on Open Learning at the University of Guelph and has presented papers on Web teaching at the annual meetings of the Canadian University Music Society and the Association for Technology in Music Instruction. Her publications include a book entitled Performing Baroque Music (Amadeus Press: Portland, Oregon, 1992), articles for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and articles and reviews in music journals. She is currently conducting research toward a new scholarly edition of the music of the 17th-century composer, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre.

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