Kendra Preston Leonard
Encyclopedia
Kendra Preston Leonard is a musicologist specializing in music and film and women and music in 20th century France
and America
. 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
.
Leonard is the author of The Conservatoire Américain: a History (Scarecrow Press, 2007), Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations (Scarecrow Press, 2009) as well as articles. She was a 2009 Visiting Fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book at Manuscript Library at Yale University
for ongoing work on the music of Louise Talma
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. She studied as a cellist at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts , formerly the North Carolina School of the Arts, is a public coeducational arts conservatory in Winston-Salem, North Carolina that grants high school, undergraduate and graduate degrees. It is one of the seventeen constituent campuses of the...
, The Peabody Conservatory, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England. Students can pursue courses in Music, Opera, Drama and Technical Theatre Arts.-History:...
, and the University of Miami
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
before studying musicology
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
at the University of Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati is a comprehensive public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio....
.
Leonard is the author of The Conservatoire Américain: a History (Scarecrow Press, 2007), Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations (Scarecrow Press, 2009) as well as articles. She was a 2009 Visiting Fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book at Manuscript Library at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
for ongoing work on the music of Louise Talma
Louise Talma
Louise Talma was a composer. She was raised in New York City and studied at the Institute of Musical Arts , 1922–1930, and received her bachelor of music degree from New York University and masters of arts degree from Columbia University...
.