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Email

mplesch@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor in Music (Musicology)
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Education
Graduate Certificate
University of Melbourne
PhD
University of Melbourne

Conservatory "Juan Jose Castro"

Conservatory "Juan Jose Castro"
ORCID

0000-0002-6848-473X

Prof Melanie Plesch

Professor in Music (Musicology)
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

51 Scholarly works
1 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    The topic of the Gato in the early works of alberto ginastera and the disambiguation of 'pequena danza'
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003218340-9
  • 2015

    Book Chapter

    Entre el mito y la historia: Carlos Vega y sus historias de la guitarra clásica en la Argentina
  • 2014

    Book Chapter

    Carlos Guastavino y la retórica del nacionalismo musical argentino: las sonatas para guitarra desde la teoría tópica
  • 2014

    Journal article

    'Una pena estrordinaria': Tópicos disfóricos en el nacionalismo musical argentino
  • 2013

    Journal article

    Demonizing and redeeming the gaucho: social conflict, xenophobia and the invention of Argentine national music
    DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2013.845425
  • 2009

    Journal article

    The topos of the guitar in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Argentina
    DOI: 10.1093/musqtl/gdp016
  • 2008

    Book Chapter

    La lógica sonora de la generación del 80: Una aproximación a la retórica del nacionalismo musical argentino.
Melanie Plesch

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2019
Corresponding Fellow of the National Academy of the Arts (Argentina)
2014
OLT National Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
2013
Barbara Falk Award for Excellence in Teaching
2006
DEST, Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2023

    Journal article

    La colección Alberto Ginastera en la Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes: un fondo documental desconocido
  • 2021

    Book

    Colecciones del Museo Histórico Nacional : ponchos e instrumentos musicales
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Posludio: Algunas reflexiones sobre los aportes y limitaciones de la teoría tópica desde la perspectiva de la música argentina.
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    Signifying Cities: Barry Conyngham and the Musical Construction of an Australian Urban Soundscape
  • 2020

    Editorship

    Dossier: Music as Discourse
  • 2019

    Book Chapter

    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)
  • 2018

    Journal article

    Resisting the Malambo: On the musical topic in the works of Alberto Ginastera
    DOI: 10.1093/musqtl/gdy014
  • 2018

    Book Chapter

    From ‘abandoned huts’ to ‘maps of the Pampas’: The topos of the huella and the representation of landscape in Argentine art music
    DOI: 10.4324/9781315163970

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