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Kendra Preston Leonard

words for and about music

I'm a scholar focusing on music and screen history and women and music; and a poet, playwright, lyricist, and librettist.

Recent & Upcoming Creative Works

My poems “Cow Parsley, Sunlight,” and “At the NonBreed UnStandard Dog Show” were just published in The Rumen.

Opera Contempo is workshopping Act 1, Scene 2 of Protectress this autumn. If you’re a singer based in or around Salt Lake City, auditions are now open.

Protectress and I are in Kirkus again in this profile.

Recent & Forthcoming Scholarly Works

Hidden Harmonies is out! You can read my chapter “Women’s Compiled Scores in Early Film Music” here.

“Reparations in Music Scholarship,” American Music 40, no. 4 (August 2022).

“Hearing The Hands of Orlac,” A Teaching Companion to Silent Film, eds. Liz Clarke and Martin Johnson, Rutgers University Press.

“Women and Technology in Music for the Silent Cinema,” in Player Pianos in Early 20th-Century Life, ed. Catherine Hennessy Wolter, 2023.

 

Recent Posts

  • Book reviews: System Collapse, the new Naomi Alderman, and great graphic novels
  • Ye Gods! Protectress is in Kirkus again
  • Cinema’s First Nasty Women Compilation Soundtrack, Vol. 1
  • Me, talking about horses, self-discipline, writing, and more
  • Book reviews: Emma Donoghue writes Anne Lister
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