The notebooks of Alexander Skryabin /

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 aspect...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915
Other Authors:	Nicholls, Simon (Translator), Pushkin, Michael, 1944- (Translator)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Translated from the Russian.
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, > 1872-1915. Scriabine, Aleksandr Nikolaïevitch, > 1872-1915. Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, > 1872-1915 MUSIC > Musical Instruments > Piano & Keyboard. MUSIC > Printed Music > Percussion. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Cultural context ; Biographical elements / Simon Nicholls
The writings of Skryabin (Russkie propilei, Moscow, 1919). A note by Boris de Schloezer on the Preliminary action ; The notebooks
Commentary. The growth of Skryabin's thought ; Thought in words, music, colour: Skryabin's developing symbolist practice ; The Preliminary action ; People and publications / Simon Nicholls
Supplementary texts by Alexander Scryabin. Reminiscences of youth ; Text to an unfinished ballade for piano (1887) ; Romance (1891) ; An early statement of aspiration (1892) ; Letters to Natal'ya Sekerina ; Letters to Margarita Morozova ; Letters to Tat'yana Schloezer.