Revista electrónica arbitrada, con periodicidad anual, que edita el Bachillerato de Bellas Artes «Prof. Francisco A. De Santo» de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Fue creada en 2011 y se edita, desde entonces, en soporte electrónico (e-ISSN 1853-6212).
Desde 2019, el sitio y todos sus contenidos se encuentran bajo una licencia internacional Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. Acorde a estos términos, los materiales se pueden compartir (copiar y redistribuir en cualquier medio o formato) y adaptar (remezclar, transformar y crear a partir del material otra obra), siempre que a) se cite la autoría y la fuente original de su publicación (revista y URL de la obra), b) no se use para fines comerciales y c) se mantengan los mismos términos de la licencia. De 2011 (número 1) a 2018 (número 9), Plurentes. Artes y Letras publicó bajo la Licencia CC BY 3.0 Unported los artículos de investigación, y la producción musical y literaria, y bajo la Licencia CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported la producción visual. Desde 2019 (número 10), todos sus contenidos se publican bajo una licencia CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Internacional.
Copyright (c) 2025 Gabriel Ruiz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Play to communicate: Games as a linguistic project in secondary school
The incorporation of games in the subject Language and text production, in the acquisition of a first or second language, has proved to be a simple and effective tool to learn grammatical concepts such as word classes, syntactic structures, and language varieties. The university, as a space for experimentation, gives us the opportunity to see the positive results of applying games in language classes. Furthermore, many renowned authors have thoroughly researched this learning strategy. In the future, we may be able to consider the Bachillerato de Bellas Artes as a place in which both teachers and students can meet and produce, archive, exchange and experiment games within a learning framework.
Copyright (c) 2025 Silvana Bressan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
An approach to the analysis of the soundtrack of "Once Upon a Time in America"
This article offers an analysis of the soundtrack of Once Upon a Time in America (1984), directed by Sergio Leone and featuring music by Ennio Morricone. The study focuses on the role of music as a narrative and symbolic resource, examining its links with the script and the film visual construction. The article analyzes the main leitmotifs, the methods of temporal synchronization, and the way the score provides dramatic coherence. The aim is to show how Morricone transforms music into an essential component of cinematic narrative.
Copyright (c) 2025 Pablo Loudet https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Copyright (c) 2025 Maura Del Papa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Colours and images for health: La Plata Children Hospital
Within the framework of Extension Projects for teachers at Bachillerato de Bellas Artes, this article describes the Production Project of creating a mural at the Radiology Department in the Children Hospital Sor María Ludovica in La Plata. The authors, Martín La Spina and Teresita Miquelarena, describe the making process and its purpose: to provide the radiology room with a mural which contributes with its images and colours, to the well-being of patients, their families and health staff.
Extension, Research and Production Projects
Copyright (c) 2025 Martín La Spina, Teresita Miquelarena https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Group didactics in teaching musical discourse
This article analyses the authors’ teaching practices in relation to the complexity presented by dialogue dynamics in the class. The observation and study of the classroom communicative processes are analysed in depth. The teaching of musical discourse and production at Bachillerato de Bellas Artes is a privileged context for group didactics, which acknowledges the group as pedagogic subject.
Copyright (c) 2025 Luciana Leguizamón, María Guadalupe Segalerba https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Towards a conceptualization of “understood interpretation”
The purpose of this work is to formulate a conceptualization of "understood interpretation", an idea previously outlined by the authors in their project "Musical Interpretation: Point of Convergence." Far from understanding musical interpretation as a simple reproduction of the text, it proposes a critical and thoughtful reading which gives the performer an active role in the construction of meaning. The stated idea claims expressive, communicative, critical, and aesthetic development, which allows musical practice to be reinterpreted as a living, contextualized and deeply human experience.
Copyright (c) 2025 Gabriela Martínez, Diana Gasparini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Strategies to Overcome Oral Production Failures in a Foreign Language
This article examines how second language learners use compensatory strategies to address oral production challenges, based on Levelt’s speech production model (1989) and Dörnyei and Kormos’s framework (1998). It identifies key difficulties—limited linguistic resources, time pressure, self-perceived errors, and comprehension issues—and outlines strategies like message adjustment, time-gaining, self-repair, and meaning negotiation. These strategies operate across different stages of speech processing and are shaped by factors like L2 automatization, L1 influence, and linguistic competence. The study highlights how understanding these mechanisms can enhance interlanguage analysis and inform more effective language teaching practices.
Copyright (c) 2025 Virginia Teresa Núñez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Problematization of the subjunctive mood in the classroom: Tone and colorations
This pedagogical proposal, aimed at 3rd year students of the Language and text production course at Bachillerato de Bellas Artes, develops a way to present and address the subjunctive mood which proves relevant to students. To this end, it focuses on those uses which can be problematic for native speakers, especially because they are optional and produce meaning differences which are often not naturally perceived wighout reflection. Over five classes, it encourages the análisis of the speaker’s perspective both on the information expressed and the listeners. The aim is to increase the students’ communicative competence through metalinguistic reflection as a bridge to text production and comprehension.
Copyright (c) 2025 Mariana Elisa Castro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Teaching through experimental musical composition
The Bachillerato de Bellas Artes "Prof. Francisco A. De Santo" has proposed the teaching of Musical Composition as from its 1992 Curriculum and, within this area of knowledge, the specialty of Experimental Composition. The following work aims to share various aspects of the germ of this pedagogical proposal, in which secondary school students face the challenge of producing discourses according to diverse methodologies which encompass some of the latest trends in contemporary academic music.
Copyright (c) 2025 Daniel Reinoso, Javier Li https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
This work presents the inclusive actions carried out by first-year preceptors at Bachillerato de Bellas Artes (UNLP) based on a situated pedagogy perspective. It explores how they support diverse educational paths, build networks, and create bonds, positioning their role beyond administrative tasks. Through concrete experiences, the article analyzes how preceptors become guarantors of rights, promoters of democratic coexistence, and facilitators of the transition to secondary school. Within the framework of inclusive and plural education, their work is shown as essential in fostering belonging, equity, and student well-being.
Copyright (c) 2025 Franciso Javier Ardanaz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Role, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius: A role-playing game system inspired by Borges' fiction
We believe that the narrative genre of reasoned fiction can inspire a Role-Playing Game (RPG) system by adapting its characteristic elements. Borgesian literature would provide both game masters and players an experience which maintains the interest in his stories of labyrinths, libraries, eternities, and infinities. We aim to show advances in the development of the RPG, for which we have selected various characters and settings from Borges's imaginary. We have focused on stories featuring protagonists who possess a fateful gift, a paradox, a universal enigma, or any phenomenon conceivable only in terms of fantasy literature.
Copyright (c) 2025 Carlos "Casper" Uncal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
According to postcognitivism, our musical knowledge is built upon bodily and social experiences with music. We engage our bodies when playing an instrument to rehearse, improvise, or compose, but also when listening to music. At the same time, we frequently engage in these practices with others, interacting physically and linguistically in ways which influence our musical experience. Postcognitivist approaches have investigated various musical practices, yet teaching–learning situations remain largely unexplored. In this paper, I reflect on the production of musical knowledge in educational contexts from the embodied and social approaches to cognition.
Copyright (c) 2025 María Marchiano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
From the territory of childhood to the child’s geography
This article brings into discussion the ways in which “childhood” has been historically understood, tracing its passage through legal, social, and psychological frameworks during the so-called “Century of the Child,” and how these constructions become strained within a neoliberal, objectifying, and market-driven context of the child’s lived experience. The paper is structured in three sections: it begins by revisiting the philosophical construction of childhood formulated in the so-called modern era; the second section reflects on the historical perspectives developed by Philippe Ariès and Lloyd de Mause; and, finally, it recognizes in the child-person her social and political character, as well as her role in the production of culture.
Copyright (c) 2025 Carmen Gabriela Ruíz Serrano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Herbarium is an inexhaustive collection of plants and flowers made in the style of a bestiary, with a travel and a categorization of all what is found. As well as bestiaries, the limit between what is real and fictional is blurred. Fontán collects examples of nature, dreams, speculations, art and literature and she weaves them as masterfully as someone who weaves leaves and words. Moreover, her Herbarium is part of a larger network together with other literary herbaria in dialogue with plastic arts and the new concept of nature brought by the Anthropocene.
Copyright (c) 2025 María Cecilia Pavón https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Affective resistance through performative drawing: case study of a feminist art-based methodology
This article presents Líneas de Vida (Life Lines), an original visual art production which, from an ethical and relational perspective, examines how performance drawing can function as a shared practice of affective resistance and critical subjectivation. Aligned with feminist approaches which problematise the limits of conventional language, it employs an Art-Based Research (ABR) methodology to explore drawing as a dialogic space grounded in co-creation. As an artistic outcome, the project has generated a graphic series of ink on paper which, in August 2025, comprises over sixty works by individuals from up to eleven different nationalities.
Copyright (c) 2025 Isabel Herrera-González https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Neuman, A. (2025). Hasta que empieza a brillar. Alfaguara. 296 páginas
Review of Neuman, A. (2025). Hasta que empieza a brillar. Alfaguara. 296 pages.
Copyright (c) 2025 María de los Ángeles Contreras https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Intersubjective markings of evidentiality
After delineating the scope of epistemic modality and evidentiality, we analyze the most frequent uses of certain intersubjective markers in informal conversations. Speakers demonstrate their level of engagement with information through epistemic surveillance actions (Piatti, 2024) and collaboratively focus, through visual perceptual markers, on the nature of the evidence at hand. These markers reflect the intersubjective attention speakers pay not only to what is being said but also to their attitude to the co-constructed project of inquiry –information– in the development of conversational dynamics. Finally, we highlight the need to teach these contents in Spanish courses.
Copyright (c) 2025 Guillermina Piatti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Unraveling the discourse of water scarcity: A proposal for the classroom
This proposal contributes to problematizing the discourse of water scarcity. We have often heard talk of a "water crisis" and "responsible use by users." Expressions like these hide the multiple and heterogeneous actors and scales of analysis involved in the processes of access to and control of water.From Social Geography perspective in dialogue with Latin American Political Ecology, the discourse of scarcity is addressed, questioning the abstract meaning of the water cycle from the concepts of the hydrosocial cycle and hydrosocial territories.
privatization and commodification of water
Copyright (c) 2025 Lorena Elizabeth Coppiarolo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The need for prevention and care in teachers' vocal health
The voice is an essential tool for teaching. Improper use of vocal technique can cause problems which affect the physical well-being and professional performance of educators. This paper analyzes risk factors, the most common symptoms, and recommendations for preventing voice disorders, as well as institutional experiences in preventive training which we have been developing at the University of La Plata. An adequate voice use implies achieving maximum performance with minimal effort.
Copyright (c) 2025 Valeria Inés Albi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Social geography? Dialogue and counterpoints to overcome fictional barriers and to approach a socio-territorial analysis of a novel
Bringing sociology and geography into dialogue to address literary worlds allows us to testify to the contributions contained in fictional works, especially novels. This paper highlights authors who promote contributions and methodologies for working with novels as socio-territorial platforms. To this end, we will focus on Moretti (2001) with his Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 and Sapiro (2016) with her proposal The Sociology of Literature. Both proposals will let us to explore novels through theoretical and analytical fields to consider the spatial dimension of the works.
Copyright (c) 2025 Juan Cruz Margueliche https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The aphoristic language in the poetry of William Blake
This study of William Blake’s poetry discovers in his writing the conception of metaphor from an aphoristic foundation which makes it possible to increase the polysemic nature of the image, in an effort to encourage the reader to see reality with its significant plurality, revealing how in every detail or event of life, there is some knowledge which shows the way to the full experience of existence. At the same time, the sources from which the author begins to universalize the message of his poems immersed in the millenary tradition of the sapiential book are offered here.
Copyright (c) 2025 Iván González Cruz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Copyright (c) 2024 Analía Amalia Geymonat https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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Copyright (c) 2024 Gabriel Ruiz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
This proposal is centered on teaching the piano with a repertoire based on current music. Considering the composition and interpretation of the instrument, with a focus on the incorporation of extended techniques and the search for new sonorities, it is proposed that train performers develop creative and exploratory skills from the beginning of their study of the instrument. Recognizing the importance of current written music, as well as the access to works by avant-garde composers, repertoire recently composed by the Brazilian composer Mariana Mendes will be used.
Copyright (c) 2024 Gabriela Judith Bantar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0