Melanie Plesch

The topic of the Gato in the early works of alberto ginastera and the disambiguation of 'pequena danza'

M Plesch

Book Chapter  |  2023

Colecciones del Museo Histórico Nacional : ponchos e instrumentos musicales

Melanie Plesch, Paula Olabarrieta, Inés Van Peteghem

Book  |  2021

Posludio: Algunas reflexiones sobre los aportes y limitaciones de la teoría tópica desde la perspectiva de la música argentina.

Melanie Plesch

Journal article  |  2020  |  Música e Investigación

Reflects on the contribution of the theory of musical topics to the study of Latin American art music and focuses on some “grey ar..

Signifying Cities: Barry Conyngham and the Musical Construction of an Australian Urban Soundscape

Melanie Plesch

Book Chapter  |  2020

Offers a preliminary approach to Barry Conyngham's work from the perspective of the theory of musical topics, focusing on his city..

De fugas, canciones infantiles y cuecas. Simultaneidad tópica y retóricas de identidad en la obra de Carlos Guastavino (Of fugues, nursery rhymes and cuecas: topical simultaneity and rhetorics of identity in the oeuvre of Carlos Guastavino)

Melanie Plesch

Book Chapter  |  2019

This chapter examines the interplay of European and Argentine vernacular topics in two works by Carlos Guastavino: ‘Un domingo de ..

Resisting the Malambo: On the Musical Topic in the Works of Alberto Ginastera

Melanie Plesch

Journal article  |  2018  |  MUSICAL QUARTERLY

From 'abandoned huts' to 'maps of the Pampas' The topos of the huella and the representation of landscape in Argentine art music

Melanie Plesch

Book Chapter  |  2018

Melanie Plesch exemplifies her interpretive method of topoi and rhetorics in Latin-American art music with the particular emblem o..

The Cultural Biography of a Music Periodical: Boletín Musical (Buenos Aires, 1837)

M PLESCH

Book Chapter  |  2017

This chapter offers a "cultural biography" of Boletín Musical, a periodical published in Buenos Aires in 1837, which survives in o..

The Learned Style in Argentine Music: Topic Simultaneity and Rhetorics of Identity in the Work of Carlos Guastavino

M Plesch

Journal article  |  2017  |  Portuguese Journal of Musicology / Revista Portuguesa de Musicologi

This article examines the interplay of European and Argentine vernacular topics in two works by Carlos Guastavino: ‘Un domingo de ..

Decentring Topic Theory: Musical Topics and Rhetorics of Identity in Latin American Art Music

M Plesch

Journal article  |  2017  |  Portuguese Journal of Musicology / Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia

The article, which functions as an introduction of the dossier of the same name, argues that both mainstream (European) and vernac..