SE-106-H, English Language School of Education Building
(705) 675-1151 ext. 2523
cleonard@laurentian.ca
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research focuses on the sacred music of 17th-century Lutheran Germany and its performance practice. I am interested in the relationship between timbre and text, and how instruments mimic the voice. My other research concerns the history of brass and community bands in northeastern Ontario. I teach music history, as well as low brass performance. I am an active orchestral trombonist.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Review of "The Trombone" by Trevor von Weber, Journal of the American Instrument Society 33 (2007).
Review of “Sonata for Trombono & Basso” by Anonymous, edited by Howard Weiner, in Historic Brass Society Journal 18 (2006). 85-86.
Review of Caldara, Antonio. Deh sciogliete, o mesti lumi. For alto and tenor trombones, soprano and keyboard. Edited by Schwartz and La Fratta. Warwick Music. Historic Brass Society Newsletter 19, no. 1 (Fall 2006)
Review of Caldara, Antonio. Dio, qual sia. For alto and tenor trombones, bassoon and keyboard. Edited by Schwartz and La Fratta. Warwick Music. Historic Brass Society Newsletter 19, no. 1 (Fall 2006)
Review of Castello, Dario. Sonata No. 4. For trombone, soprano instrument and keyboard. Edited by Schwartz and La Fratta. Warwick Music. Historic Brass Society Newsletter 19, no. 1 (Fall 2006)
Review of Fux, Johann Joseph. Alma redemptoris mater, K. 186. For alto trombone, soprano and keyboard. Edited by Schwartz and La Fratta. Warwick Music. Historic Brass Society Newsletter 19, no. 1 (Fall 2006)
Review of Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Agnus Dei. For alto trombone, soprano and keyboard. Edited by Schwartz and La Fratta. Warwick Music. Historic Brass Society Newsletter 19, no. 1 (Fall 2006)
17th-Century Lutheran Church Music with Trombones. Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 2003.
"Hammerschmidt's Representation in the Bohn Collection: The Capella Tradition in Practice" Early Music Context and Ideas: International Conference in Musicology. Kraków, Poland: Institute of Musicology, Jagiellonian University, 2003.
"The Role of the Trombone and its Affekt in the Lutheran Church Music of 17th-Century Saxony and Thuringia: The Mid- and Late 17th Century." Historic Brass Society Journal 12 (2000).