Rethinking Scriabin

Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-0-19-780814-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm

Each generation has its own master composers, authors, writers. Names and faces come and go in that virtual Pantheon; and many faces return with new aspects. Alexander Scriabin was a cause of controversy during his lifetime and directly after his legend-inducing sudden, early death. Unlike that of many figures from pre-revolutionary Russia, his reputation survived the social cataclysm; the breadth of interpretation in Soviet criticism alone, from straightforward heroic mythmaking to competing methods of technical analysis, bears witness to an artistic personality far beyond the "elf" celebrated by his contemporary, the poet Balmont. But does he still measure up to the other pole of Balmont's dual appellation, the "Titan"?

No composer has suffered more from fixed ideas than Scriabin. Was he mad? What was his attitude towards women, towards sex? What music (if any) did he admire? This last rephrases Stravinsky's rhetorical question about Scriabin's roots. Here, an international team of leading experts examines Scriabin from the viewpoints of musical analysis, social background, literary and artistic affiliations, religion and spirituality, especially the relevance of Hinduism and Sufism.

Rethinking Scriabin seeks answers through well-documented research towards a rethought attitude to the artist, the man and his world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macchiarella, Lindsey

Flamm, Christoph

Kallis, Vasilis

Nicholls, Simon

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Simon Nicholls, Preface

- Acknowledgements

- Note on Transliteration, Bibliography, and Dates

- Introduction

- 1: Marina Frolova-Walker, "The Man Behind the Curtain"

- In Dialogue

- 2: Wendelin Bitzan, "Scriabin and Medtner: Latent Influences and Intercommunities"

- 3: Lindsey Macchiarella, "Scriabin the Wagnerian: Reception and Influence"

- 4: David Haas, "Scriabin's Leitmotivic Technique: The Progress of a Method"

- 5: Jared Redmond, "Korsakov Scales, the Mystic Chord, and Scriabin's Influence on Harmony in the 1920s Soviet Avant-Garde"

- 6: Wai-Ling Cheong, "Scriabin's Metric and Rhythmic Modernism: Messiaenian Perspectives"

- Multimodalities

- 7:Areg Mekhakyan, "Sacred Dance in Scriabin's Synthesis of the Arts: Greek and Indian Parallels"

- 8: Simon Nicholls, "Scriabin and Language"

- 9: Miriam Asatryan, "Hypersphere: The Fourth Dimension in a Drawing by Scriabin"

- 10: Kenneth Smith and Ian Costabile, "Scriabin's 'Irrlicht': Lights, Colors, and Insects in Scriabin's Tenth Sonata"

- Transitions

- 11: Keith Salley, "Functional Conflation, Invariance, and Referentiality in Scriabin's Early Works"

- 12: Lance Russell, "The Union of Tonality and Dual-Polarity in Scriabin's Transitional Works"

- 13: Vasilis Kallis, "On Scriabin's Transitional Period (1903 -1908): From Harmonic Function to Scalar Quality"

- Late Style

- 14: Adrian Childs, "Quantum Metaphors and Scriabin's Late Preludes"

- 15: Christoph Flamm, "The Future of the Past? Tertiary Sub-harmonies in Scriabin's Late Sonatas"

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lindsey Macchiarella is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her primary area of research is early musical modernism in fin-de-siècle France and Russia, and she is published in journals such as Music in Art, Keyboard Perspectives, and the Journal of the Scriabin Society of America. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Scriabin Society of America and is lead editor of Rethinking Scriabin.

Christoph Flamm is Professor of Musicology at the University of Heidelberg. He is the editor of Transcending Nationalism? (2025), and Nikolai Medtner: Music, Aesthetics, and Contexts (2021), among other volumes.

Vasilis Kallis is Professor of Music at the University of Nicosia. He is the co-editor of Demystifying Scriabin (2022), and the author of numerous articles in journals such as Music Analysis, Music Theory Online, and Rivista di analisi e teoria musicale.

Simon Nicholls is a pianist and

independent scholar. Previously, he was Professor of Music at Royal College of Music, London, and taught piano at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He is the translator and editor of The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin (2018).