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DR MICHAEL CHRISTOFORIDIS



Contact Details

Organization: Music
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN MUSICOLOGY
Email:
Homepage: www.music.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/christoforidis.html
Work: 8344 8278
Fax: 8344 5346
Building: Conservatorium Of Music
Campus: Parkville

Biography

b. Melbourne, Australia. Completed his PhD on aspects of the creative process in Manuel de Falla’s Neoclassical music. He has been a research associate at the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales (Madrid) and at the Archivo Manuel de Falla (Granada), where he was responsible for classifying the composer’s annotations to his library. He has published extensively on aspects of 20th-century Hispanic music and is currently completing a monograph on Spanish music in Belle-Epoque Paris. His next major research project  examines Bizet's Carmen, Spain and the emergence of popular culture. Other research interests include the music of Igor Stravinsky and Percy Grainger.

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Exoticism in Music Carmen, Popular music and entertainment France, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America, Greece
Spanish Music Manuel de Falla, Nationalism, Neoclassicism Spain, France
Music and the visual arts Stravinsky, Picasso, Ballets Russes England, Spain, France, Russian Federation, Switzerland
Percy Grainger Australia, England, United States of America

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Spain Complutense University of Madrid Exchange, Research, Teaching
Greece Ionian University Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
Spanish Speak, Read & Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Melbourne 14-Dec-1990
Bachelor of Music University of Melbourne 16-Dec-1983
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 14-Mar-1998

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Musicological Society of Australia 01-Jul-1990
Member American Musicological Society 01-Jan-1998

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Negotiating exoticism, nationalism & modernity: constructions of Hispanic music in Belle-Epoque Paris Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003

Additional Grant and Contract Information

Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2001): "Context, creative process and impact: Manuel de Falla's milieu and the definition of Hispanic musical nationalism"

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Manuel de Falla, Flamenco and Spanish Identity
    Year: 2007
    Book: Western Music and Race
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Manuel de Falla, early music and the harpsichord in El retablo de Maese Pedro
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Simposia "Diego Fernandez" del Festival Internacional de Música de tecla española
    Conference Publication: Five centuries of Spanish keyboard music: Proceedings of FIMTE Symposia 2002-2004
    Page numbers: 343-355
    Publisher: Asociación Cultural LEAL(Garrucha)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • From Folksong to Plainchant: Musical Borrowings and the Transformation of Manuel de Falla's Musical Nationalism in the 1920s
    Year: 2005
    Book: Manuel de Falla: His Life and Music
    Publisher: Scarecrow Press(Lanham)
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  • Manuel de Falla's Personal Library and Insights into the Composer's Annotations
    Year: 2005
    Book: Manuel de Falla: His Life and Music
    Publisher: Scarecrow Press(Lanham)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Cendrillon, Cindarella and spectacle: Insights into Sor's most successful work
    Year: 2003
    Book: Estudios sobre Fernando Sor
    Publisher: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales(Madrid)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Domenico Scarlatti and Manuel de Dalla's construction of Hispanic neoclassisism
    Year: 2003
    Event name: IMS Intecongressional Symposium
    Conference Publication: The Past in the Present
    Page numbers: 531-544
    Publisher: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music(Budapest)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Igor Stravinsky, Spanish Catholicism and General'simo Franco
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Context
    Volume: 22
    Issue: Spring 2001
    Page numbers: 61-67
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Major Reference Works

  • Diccionario de la musica espanola e hispanoamericana:Barrios, Angel
    Year: 2002
    Reference Work Title: Diccionario de la musica espanola e hispanoamericana
    Publisher: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores(Madrid)
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  • Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart:Barrios, Angel
    Year: 2002
    Reference Work Title: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
    Publisher: Barenreiter(Kassel)
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  • Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart:Falla, Manuel de
    Year: 2002
    Reference Work Title: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
    Publisher: Barenreiter(Kassel)
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  • Diccionario de la musica espanola e hispanoamericana:Falla, Manuel de
    Year: 2002
    Reference Work Title: Diccionario de la musica espanola e hispanoamericana
    Publisher: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores(Madrid)
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  • Diccionario de la musica espanola e hispanoamericana:Jean-Aubry, Georges
    Year: 2002
    Reference Work Title: Diccionario de la musica espanola e hispanoamericana
    Publisher: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores(Madrid)
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  • Diccionario de la musica espanola e hispanoamericana:Llobet, Miguel
    Year: 2002
    Reference Work Title: Diccionario de la musica espanola e hispanoamericana
    Publisher: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores(Madrid)
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  • Diccionario de la musica espanola e hispanoamericana:Trend, John B.
    Year: 2002
    Reference Work Title: Diccionario de la musica espanola e hispanoamericana
    Publisher: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores(Madrid)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Hacia Nuevos Conceptos de 'ópera' en los Pryectos de Manuel de Falla (1911-1923)
    Year: 2002
    Event name: La opera en Espana e Hispanoamerica: Una Creacion propia
    Conference Publication: La ópera en España e Hispanoamérica
    Volume: II
    Page numbers: 363-371
    Publisher: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales(Madrid)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Issues in the English Critical Reception of The Three-Cornered Hat
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Context
    Volume: 19
    Issue: Spring 2000
    Page numbers: 87-93
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Igor Stravinky's "Madrid", Pablo Picasso and the avante-garde in the visual arts
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Compos interdisciplinares de la musicolog'a: V congress de la sociedad española de musicolog'a
    Conference Publication: Compos interdisciplinares de la musicolog'a
    Page numbers: 1303-1309
    Publisher: Sociedad Espanola de Musicologia(Madrid)
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