Demystifying Scriabin

Introduction: Demystifying Scriabin Kenneth Smith & Vasilis Kallis Part I. Shaping Creativity1 About That Chord, and about Scriabin as a Mystic Simon Morrison 2 Scriabin and the Russian Silver Age Rebecca Mitchell3 Scriabin as a Writer: The Development of Scriabin's Thought as Shown in a Lifetime's Writings Simon Nicholls4 Russian Pedagogy in Composition and Music Theory during Scriabin's Creative Period Kostantin Zenkin5 Studying Scriabin's Autographs: Reflections of the Creative Process Pavel Shatskiy Part II. The Music as Prism6 Scriabin's Miniaturism Stephen Downes7 The Scriabin Tremor and Its Role in His Oeuvre Inessa Bazayev8 Demystifying the Mystic Vasilis Kallis9 Temporal Perspectives in Scriabin's Late Music Antonio Grande10 Scriabin's Multi-dimensional Accelerative Sonata Forms Kenneth Smith 11 Setting Mystical Forces in Motion: The Dialectics of Scale-Type Integration in Three Late Works Ross Edwards Part III. Reception and Tradition12 Scriabin's Synaesthesia: the Legend, the Evidence, and Its Implications for Multimedia Counterpoint Anna Gawboy13 Playing Scriabin: Reality and Enchantment Marina Frolova-Walker14 Scriabin and Music Analysis: The Search for the Holy Grail Vasilis Kallis & Kenneth Smith15 Scriabin and the Classical Tradition Ildar Khannanov16 Scriabin's Critical Reception: 'Genius or madman?' James KreilingBibliography Index