Contents

pp v-vi

List of Contributors

pp vii-x

Editorial Conventions

pp xi-xii

Introduction: Demystifying Scriabin

pp 1-8

Part I - Shaping Creativity

pp 9-10

1 - About That Chord, and about Scriabin as a Mystic

pp 11-25

2 - Scriabin and the Russian Silver Age

pp 26-45

3 - Scriabin as a Writer: The Development of Scriabin’s Thought as Shown in a Lifetime’s Writings

pp 46-63

4 - Russian Pedagogy in Composition and Music Theory during Scriabin’s Creative Period

pp 64-80

5 - Studying Scriabin’s Autographs: Reflections of the Creative Process

pp 81-96

Part II - The Music as Prism

pp 97-98

6 - Scriabin’s Miniaturism

pp 99-114

7 - The Scriabin Tremor and Its Role in His Oeuvre

pp 115-133

8 - Demystifying the Mystic

pp 134-157

9 - Temporal Perspectives in Scriabin’s Late Music

pp 158-177

10 - Scriabin’s Multi-Dimensional Accelerative Sonata Forms

pp 178-195

11 - Setting Mystical Forces in Motion: The Dialectics of Scale-Type Integration in Three Late Works

pp 196-220

Reception and Tradition

pp 221-222

12 - Scriabin’s Synaesthesia: The Legend, the Evidence, and Its Implications for Multimedia Counterpoint

pp 223-246

13 - Playing Scriabin: Reality and Enchantment

pp 247-268

14 - Scriabin and Music Analysis: The Search for the Holy Grail

pp 269-281

15 - Scriabin and the Classical Tradition

pp 282-301

16 - Scriabin’s Critical Reception: ‘Genius or Madman?’

pp 302-320

Bibliography

pp 321-340

Index

pp 341-345