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Kendra Preston Leonard (born June 11, 1974, New Orleans) is an American musicologist. She specialized in women in music and music in screen history in 20th century France, Britain, and America.
Education
She studied as a cellist at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, The Peabody Conservatory, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the University of Miami before studying musicology at the University of Cincinnati. 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
Preston., Leonard, Kendra (2011). Buffy, ballads, and bad guys who sing : music in the worlds of Joss Whedon. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6945-5. OCLC 939935646.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Preston., Leonard, Kendra (2016). Music for Silent Film : a Guide to North American Resources. A-R Editions, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89579-835-0. OCLC 960760340.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
See also
Women in musicology
References
External links
Official website
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- Kendra Lust
- Joss Whedon
- Mia Khalifa
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- Mia Malkova
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- Louise Talma
- List of musicologists
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- List of University of North Carolina School of the Arts alumni
- List of Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign non-political endorsements
- Buffy studies
- Women in music
- Women in musicology
- Women Film Pioneers Project
