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Cynthia Cyrus Blair School of Music, Rm. 1113B Vanderbilt University 2400 Blakemore Avenue Nashville, TN 37212 email: cynthia.cyrus@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615-322-7693 (w) or 615-646-2516 (h) (Please don't call home after 9 p.m. unless it is a true emergency) |
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Cynthia Cyrus is Associate Dean of the collegiate program of the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University. She is Associate Professor of Musicology and serves as Affiliated Faculty in European Studies as well as Affiliated Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies. Her special topics courses have included Classical Musicians' Biopics (offered Fall 2008), Brahms and the Anxiety of Influence, Music in the Age of Beethoven and Schubert, and Women and Music; she also hosts selected student web projects from MusL 243 and an old page of early music links.
Her research covers a variety of medieval and Renaissance topics. In addition to Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming Fall 2008), she is completing a monograph on the libraries of women's monasteries in late medieval Germany and a study focused on literacy, particularly musical literacy, in late medieval France. She has also worked extensively on Chanson Reworkings, which are arrangements of polyphonic songs from the 15th century; her edition of chanson settings of Hayne van Ghizeghem's De tous biens plaine (arguably the most popular song of the 15th century) is available from A-R editions.
As part of a collaborative NEH project (with Professors Susan Weiss and Russell Murray) on musical education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Dr. Cyrus compiled an on-line searchable bibliography, MIML: Musical Instruction and Musical Learning, 1450 - 1550. Other work from this project, including a volume of essays, will be forthcoming in 2009, as will a volume in memory of dance historian Ingrid Brainard co-edited with Ann Buckley (Medieval Institute Publications, forthcoming 2009). Dr. Cyrus's articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as Early Music, Plainsong and Medieval Music, Sewanee Medieval Studies, Speculum, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music and Letters, College Music Symposium, Fontes Artis Musicae, and Popular Music.
Dr. Cyrus received her Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She then held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from The Ohio State University to research medieval music theory; she concentrated on concepts of mode (melodic classification) in a central Carolingian music theory treatise, the Alia musica. She also taught at the University of Rochester and SUNY-Stony Brook before coming to Vanderbilt in the Fall of 1994. She is active in the profession, having organized Musicology at Kalamazoo for a number of years; Dr. Cyrus is currently serving as Local Arrangements Chair for the AMS-Nashville meeting, 6-9 November 2008.
In addition to her work at Blair, Dr. Cyrus maintains a lively public speaking life and homeschools three children. Other interests are mentioned on her personal page.
Other Web Pages Maintained by Cynthia Cyrus
- ORB music index or go straight to individual contributions:
- links to Franz Schubert web sites
- Differences between Beethoven and Schubert (and supporting images)
- The Machaut site has moved to http://www.loyno.edu/~avclark/Machaut/imshome.htm ; thanks to Alice Clark for taking up the flag!
Comments to: Cynthia.Cyrus@vanderbilt.edu; updated 4 July 2008