Kendra Preston Leonard (born June 11, 1974,
) is an American musicologist. She specialized in women in music and music in screen history in 20th century
France
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, Britain, and
America.
Education
She studied as a cellist at the
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
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, The
Peabody Conservatory
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, the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
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, and the
University of Miami
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before studying
musicology at the
University of Cincinnati
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. She received her PhD from the University of Sunderland.
She held the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s Thornton Wilder Fellowship from Yale University (2009-2010). She taught musicology at Westminster Choir College from 2009-2011. She is the Executive Director of the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive, and librettist of Marie Curie Learns to Swim, a one act opera with music by Jessica Rudman.
Awards and honors
She won the inaugural Judith Tick Fellowship from the Society for American Music (2013-2014) for research on Louise Talma.
Selected publications
* Louise Talma: A Life in Composition, Ashgate Publishing, 2014
* Shakespeare, Madness and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations, Scarecrow Press, 2009
* The Conservatoire Américain: a History, Scarecrow Press, 2007
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[Reviews for ''Music for Silent Film ''
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See also
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Women in musicology
References
External links
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1974 births
Living people
American musicologists
American women musicologists
People from New Orleans
21st-century American women musicians