Demystifying Scriabin / edited by Kenneth Smith and Vasilis Kallis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Kenneth M., editor.

Kallis, Vasilis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915--Criticism and interpretation.

Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2022.

Summary:

This book is an innovative contribution to Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output, as well as his interaction with contemporary Russian culture. It offers new and original research from leading and upcoming Russian music scholars. Key Scriabin topics such as mysticism, philosophy, music theory, contemporary aesthetics, and composition processes are covered. Musical coverage spans the composer's early, middle and late period. All main repertoire is being discussed: the piano miniatures and sonatas as well as the symphonies. In more detail, chapters consider: Scriabin's part in early twentieth-century Russia's cultural climate; how Scriabin moved from early pastiche to a style much more original; the influence of music theory on Scriabin's idiosyncratic style; the changing contexts of Scriabin performances; new aspects of reception studies. Further chapters offer: a critical understanding of how Scriabin's writings sit within the traditions of Mysticism as well as French and Russian Symbolism; a new investigation into his creative compositional process; miniaturism and its wider context; a new reading of the composer's mysticism and synaesthesia. Analytical chapters reach out of the score to offer an interpretative framework; accepting new approaches from disability studies; investigating the complex interaction of rhythm and metre and modal interactions, the latent diatonic 'tonal function' of Scriabin's late works, as well as self-regulating structures in the composer's music.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Editorial Conventions

Introduction: Demystifying Scriabin

Part I. Shaping Creativity

1. About That Chord, and about Scriabin as a Mystic

2. Scriabin and the Russian Silver Age

3. Scriabin as a Writer: The Development of Scriabins Thought as Shown in a Lifetimes Writings

4. Russian Pedagogy in Composition and Music Theory during Scriabins Creative Period

5. Studying Scriabins Autographs: Reflections of the Creative Process

Part II. The Music as Prism

6. Scriabins Miniaturism

7. The Scriabin Tremor and Its Role in His Oeuvre

8. Demystifying the Mystic

9. Temporal Perspectives in Scriabins Late Music

10. Scriabins Multi-Dimensional Accelerative Sonata Forms

11. Setting Mystical Forces in Motion: The Dialectics of Scale-Type Integration in Three Late Works

Part III. Reception and Tradition

12. Scriabins Synaesthesia: The Legend, the Evidence, and Its Implications for Multimedia Counterpoint

13. Playing Scriabin: Reality and Enchantment

14. Scriabin and Music Analysis: The Search for the Holy Grail

15. Scriabin and the Classical Tradition

16. Scriabins Critical Reception: Genius or Madman?

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2022).

ISBN:

1-80010-418-9

OCLC:

1288027031