| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 263 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half title; The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Editorial procedure; The Translations; Russian dates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Cultural context; Biographical elements; The Writings of Skryabin (Russkie propilei, Moscow, 1919) 29; A Note by Boris de Schloezer on the Preliminary Action; The Notebooks:; I.A single sheet, written at the age of about sixteen; II. Period of the First Symphony, around 1900; III. Chorus from Symphony no. 1; IV. Libretto for an opera, written after Symphony no. 1 but before 1903 |
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V. Notebook, summer 1904, SwitzerlandVI. Notebook, 1904-5; VII. Notebook, 1905-6; IX. [The Preliminary Action]; 1. Initial version, full text; 2. Final, fair copy of the text, unfinished; Commentary; The growth of Skryabin's thought; A 'philosopher-musician'?; The influence of philosophy; Music and philosophy; Skryabin's reading; Ernest Renan; Greek philosophy; German idealism; Russian philosophy and Russian symbolism; Congress at Geneva; The influence of theosophy; Indian culture; Skryabin's philosophy of music; Skryabin's 'teaching' |
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Thought in words, music, colour: Skryabin's developing symbolist practiceSkryabin's poetic language; The Poem of Ecstasy: Text and music (1905-8); Prometheus: Music, colour, and the word (1908-10); A preliminary to what?-'The idea of the Mystery' (Leonid Sabaneyev); Performance as sacrament; The music for the Preliminary Action; People and publications 225; Leonid Sabaneyev; Mikhail Gershenzon and Russkie propilei; Supplementary Texts by Alexander Skryabin 231; I. Reminiscences of youth; II. Text to an unfinished Ballade for piano (1887); III. Romance (1891) |
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IV. An early statement of aspiration (1892)Letters to Natal2ya Sekerina:; V. [June 1892]; VI. [July 1892]; VII. [May/June 1893]; VIII. [June 1893]; Letters to Margarita Morozova:; IX. April 1904; X. [April/May 1906]; Letters to Tat2yana Schloezer:; XI. [January 1905]; XII. [December 1906]; XIII. Poem to accompany Sonata NO. 4; XIV. Open Letter to A. N. Bryanchaninov: 'Art and Politics' (1915); Biographical notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This new source-book for the Russian composer Alexander Skryabin provides a full translation of his writings as published in Moscow in 1919, with supplementary texts and letters from the composer. Commentary by Simon Nicholls examines the sources of Skryabin's thought and its relation to aspects of his compositional techniques, and an outline biography relates Skryabin's work to his extraordinary short life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Russian |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 10, 2018) |
| Subject |
Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915.
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| SUBJECT |
Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915 fast |
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MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Piano & Keyboard.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Percussion.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nicholls, Simon, translator, writer of added commentary
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Pushkin, Michael, 1944- translator.
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Ashkenazy, Vladimir, 1937- author of introduction, etc.
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| LC no. |
2017044481 |
| ISBN |
9780190863678 |
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0190863676 |
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9780190863692 |
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0190863692 |
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