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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Scriabin"”.
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Remystifying Scriabin: Scalar Quality in the Late Works
… late compositions (1907-1915) by Alexander Scriabin. All the pieces considered have, for one reason or another, proven difficult for scholarship to grasp from a technical perspective. Published works considered range from the Fifth Piano Sonata, Op. 53 to the Five Preludes, Op. 74. Sections …
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Musical semiotics and color : contextual roles of color in Scriabin and Schoenberg.
… through the primary case study of Alexander Scriabin's symphony Prometheus: Poem of Fire (1911), as well as an in-depth overview of Arnold Schoenberg's synesthetic music drama Die glückliche Hand (1913). With both of these case studies color takes on a unique semiotic role, applying its …
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A Theory of Orthography and the Fundamental Bass for the Late Oeuvre of Scriabin
The late œuvre of Alexander N. Scriabin (Op. 60–Op. 74, 1910–1914) constitutes one of the most intriguing and perplexing bodies of early twentieth-century music, with analytic and theoretic approaches toward this body of work ranging from the extendedly tonal to set-theoretic approaches that place …
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Liberation of the Senses: An Exploration of Sound-color Synesthesia in the Music of Alexander Scriabin and Olivier Messiaen
… of Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) and Alexander Scriabin (1872-1914). Special attention will be given to the comparison of Scriabin's Prometheus (1911), a piece calling for the projection of colored light to accompany the music as a visual representation of the composer's subjective color …
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Prometheus in sound : one hundred years of musical adaptations of the myth of Prometheus: Beethoven, Shubert, Liszt, Wolf, Parry, Fauré and Scriabin
The Promethean characteristics of contemporary young iconoclasts as they have expressed disapproval of the society which they have inherited and in which they feel entrapped prompted this study. Our interest here lies with the nature of the dissatisfaction rather than with ways of expressing it. If …
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Master's thesis recital (piano)
… / Franz Schubert -- Etudes, op.8 / Alexander Scriabin.
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Doctoral thesis recital (piano)
… Schumann -- Sonata no. 5, op. 53 / Aleksandr Scriabin
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Doctoral thesis recital (trombone)
… Poulenc -- Red sky / Barfield -- Three etudes / Scriabin -- Romanza [Romance for trombone and piano] / Weber -- Adagio in G minor / Giazotto -- Song of travel / Williams.
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Scriabin's Harmonic Language: Manifestations of Symmetry In Opus 52 and A Transcription For Chamber Orchestra
… is dedicated to the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin and his unique harmonic language. Notion of symmetry and its numerous manifestations will be the primary focus and lenses through which Scriabin's harmonic language will be explored in greater detail. The piano cycle <em>Trois …
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Towards a performance of Scriabin's Sonata No. 6, Op. 62: a practice-led exploration
Pianist and composer Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) is regarded as one of the most unique and important innovators of the early modernist Russian school. His search for new and more complex sonorities – as well as his evolving belief in the role that his music would play in the spiritual future of …
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The Significance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Sonata Op.12
… as the harmonic piers adapted from Alexander Scriabin, neighboring-tone technique, which involves the application of semitone cell throughout the piece, as well as the technique of thematic transformation borrowed from Liszt. These all come together by Shostakovich's design in the most …
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The music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes; harbinger of American art music's transition into the modern age
… of the forward-looking ideas of Ravel, Scriabin, Schoenberg, and other modern composers, as well as his anticipation of new twentieth-century trends.
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Developing an artificial colour-sound association for musical composition
Some great composers - Messiaen, Scriabin, Liszt in exemplum - have been found to have an internal colour world that responds to music and characterises the way they experience and express music. Many of these artists, it could be strongly argued, had the neurological trait synaesthesia. The …
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Structural processes in Gabriel Fauré's nocturnes for piano
… such as Field, Chopin, Liszt, Balakirev, Scriabin, Satie, Debussy and Poulenc. The investigation focuses on a close reading of the nocturnes, and especially on thematic, motivic and harmonic usage, and on Fauré's most original contribution, his complex integration of advanced chromaticism …
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An historical and analytical survey of the Transcendental Etudes by Sergei Liapunov.
… during the same period by Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. Liapunov continued and enriched the great traditions of Russian music started by Glinka and The Mighty Five. He did not discover bold new ways of composing, and at the same time did not succumb to the temptation of following contemporary …
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An approach for the advanced pianist toward developing concepts and control of vertical and horizontal motion : the two fundamental directions of movement in piano technique
… Beethoven, Field, Chopin, Liszt, Moussorgsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Bartok, Webern, Fontyn, Orff, and Copland. These present clearly isolated problems of horizontal or vertical motion as well as complex combinations of both basic motion forms. The commentaries to each excerpt are …
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Nietzsche's orphans: music and the search for unity in revolutionary Russia, 1905-1921
… broader social concerns. The music of Aleksandr Scriabin (1871-1915) was associated with images of universal historical progress. Nikolai Medtner (1879-1951) embodied an “Imperial” worldview, in which musical style was imbued with an eternal significance which transcended the divisions of nation. …