Natalya V. Leonova

Candidate of Art Studies, Docent

M. I. Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatory, Department of Ethnomusicology, Professor

Scientific Interests

Musical and folklore traditions of Siberian settlers

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Brief biography

Born in Ulan-Ude. Natalia Vladimirovna graduated from the theoretical and compositional department of the Ulan-Ude Musical College named after. P. I. Tchaikovsky (1969); Faculty of Theory and Composition (1978) and postgraduate studies (1981) at the M. I. Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatory.

Candidate's dissertation: "Russian calendar songs of Siberia" (1996).

N.V. Leonova took part in the prepublishing of the collective monograph "Musical Culture of Siberia" by the M. I. Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatory, as well as volumes of the academic Series "Folklore Monuments of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East" of the SB RAS: "The Russian Fairy Tales of Siberia and the Far East: Legendary and Domestic" (1993), "The Russian Calendar and Ritual Folklore of Siberia and the Far East: Songs. Charms and Spells" (1997), "Russian Lyrical Songs of Siberia and the Far East" (1997), "Russian Family and Ritual Folklore of Siberia and the Far East: Wedding Poetry. Funeral laments" (2002), "Folklore of the Belarusians of Siberia and the Far East. Part I: Family ritual songs and lamentations" (2011). Compiler, editor of a number of publications, author of critical articles.

A significant part of the scientific work is carried out by N.V. Leonova with the support of the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation.

From 1977 to 2019 participated in 37 educational and scientific expeditions to record musical folklore in the Altai, Krasnoyarsk, Primorsky, Khabarovsk Territories, Amur, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tyumen regions, the Republic of Buryatia. She has participated in more than 80 conferences at various levels, from regional to international, and is the author of descriptions of several objects of intangible cultural heritage posted on the website of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Scientific and organizational activity

Member of the Siberian organization of the Union of Composers of Russia.

Member of the editorial board of the scientific journal "Languages ??and Folklore of the Indigenous Peoples of Siberia".

Teaching profession

N.V. Leonova taught at the Department of History of Music of the M. I. Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatory, the Department of Music Theory and Composition (since 1983), since 1986 at the Department of Composition, since 1990 to the present she has been working at the Department of Ethnomusicology. For many years, she conducted training courses in musical-historical and theoretical cycles, developed the author's programs for the courses "Folk Musical Creativity" ("Musical Folklore"), "The Practice of Traditional Music Notation", "Textology of Folklore", "Introduction to East Slavic Ethnography", "Slavic musical cultures of Siberia", "Traditional music of the peoples of Europe". Under the guidance of N. V. Leonova, 17 graduation works, 2 master's theses and 8 candidate's dissertations were defended.

Selected publications

Russkie skazki Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka: Legendarnye. Bytovye [The Russian Fairy Tales of Siberia and the Far East: Legendary and Domestic]. Introductory article, text preparation, commentaries and indexes by N. V. Soboleva with N. A. Kargopolov. Musicological article and musical scores by N. V. Leonova. Novosibirsk, Nauka, 1992. 304 p. (Pamyatniki fol'klora narodov Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka [Monument of Folklore of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East]). (In Russ.).

Russkiy kalendarno-obryadovyy fol'klor Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka: Pesni. Zagovory [The Russian Calendar and Ritual Folklore of Siberia and the Far East: Songs. Charms and Spells]. Prepared by F. F. Bolonev, M. N. Melnikov, and N. V. Leonova. Scholarly editing by V. S. Kuznetsova. Novosibirsk, Nauka, 1997. 605 p. (Pamyatniki fol'klora narodov Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka [Monument of Folklore of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East]). (In Russ.).

Russkie liricheskie pesni Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka [The Russian Lyric Songs of Siberia and the Far East]. Introductory article, text preparation, commentaries and indexes by S. I. Krasnoshtanov with V. S. Levashov. Musicological article by V. M. Shchurov. Musicological editing by E. E. Alekseev, N. V. Leonova. Novosibirsk, Nauka, 1997. 524 p. (Pamyatniki fol'klora narodov Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka [Monument of Folklore of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East]). (In Russ.).

Russkiy semeyno-obryadovyy fol'klor Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka: Svadebnaya poeziya. Pokhoronnaya prichet' [Russian family and ritual folklore of Siberia and the Far East. Poetry of wedding rites. Funeral laments]. Compiling and preparation of texts, notes, indexes by R. P. Potanina, N. V. Leonova (wedding poetry), L. E. Fetisova and N. V. Leonova (funeral laments). Introductory articles by R. P. Potanina (wedding poetry), L. E. Fetisova (funeral laments). Musicological articles by N. V. Leonova, N. A. Ursegova (wedding poetry), N. V. Leonova (funeral laments. Compact disk preparation by N. V. Leonova. Preparation of the master disk by G. A. Petrov. Novosibirsk, Nauka, 2002. 551 p. (Pamyatniki fol'klora narodov Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka [Monument of Folklore of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East]). (In Russ.).

Fol'klor belorusov Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka. Chast' I: Semeyno-obryadovye pesni i prichitaniya [The Belorussian Folklore of Siberia and the Far East. Part I: Family ritual songs and lamentations]. N. V. Leonova, T. G. Leonova, L. M. Sviridova et al. (Comps). Novosibirsk, Nauka, 2011, 548 p. (Pamyatniki fol'klora narodov Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka; T. 31 [Monuments of Folklore of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East. Vol. 31]). (In Belorus., in Russ.).

Leonova N. V. Belorusskiy fol'klor [Byelorussian folklore]. In: Muzykal'naya kul'tura Sibiri: V 3 t. [Musical Culture of Siberia: In 3 vols.]. Novosibirsk, 1997. Vol. 1: Traditsionnaya muzykal'naya kul'tura narodov Sibiri [Traditional musical culture of the peoples of Siberia]. Book 2: Traditsionnaya kul'tura sibirskikh pereselentsev [Traditional culture of the Siberian settlers]. Pp. 34–51. (In Russ.).

Leonova N. V. Problemy izucheniya fol'klora belorusov Sibiri [Problems of studying of folklore of Byelorussians of Siberia]. Humanitarian Sciences in Siberia. 2000. No. 3. Pp. 84–87. (In Russ.).

Dayneko T.V., Leonova N. V. Belorusskie kalendarnye pesni Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka: zhanrovyy sostav [Genres of Belarusian calendar songs of Siberia and the Far East]. Siberian Journal of Philology. 2019. No. 2. Pp. 27–38. (In Russ.).