Demystifying Scriabin by Vasilis Kallis

Demystifying Scriabin by Vasilis Kallis

An innovative contribution to Scriabin studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output, and interaction with contemporary Russian culture. 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.

VASILLIS KALLIS is Professor of Music Theory at the University of Nicosia. KENNETH SMITH Professor of Music Theory at the University of Liverpool. VASILLIS KALLIS is Professor of Music Theory at the University of Nicosia. KENNETH SMITH Professor of Music Theory at the University of Liverpool.

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ISBN 13	9781783276561
ISBN 10	1783276568
Title	Demystifying Scriabin
Author	Vasilis Kallis
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Year published	2022-01-14
Number of pages	358
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