TEORA DE LA

MSICA DEL S.XX

SCRIABIN

CONTEXT

Scriabins influences

 Summer of 1903
Pasternak
GESAMTKUNSTWERK
Divine Poem
Poem of Ecstasy.

In a light mist, transparent vapor Lost afar and yet distinct

A star gleams softly.
How beautiful! The bluish mystery Of her glow
Beckons me, cradles me.
0 bring me to thee, far distant star! Bathe me in trembling rays
Sweet light!
Sharp desire, voluptuous and crazed yet sweet Endlessly with no other goal than longing I would desire.
But no! I vault in joyous leap Freely I take wing
Mad dance, godlike play! Intoxicating, shining one!
It is toward thee, adored star To serve the end
My flight of liberation!
In moments Iforgot thee In the maelstrom that carries me 1 veer from thy glimmering raysIn the insanity ofdesire
But ever thou shinest As Iforever desire thee!
Thou expandest, Star! Now thou art a Sun FlamboyantSun! SunofTriumph!
Approaching thee by my desire of thee I lave myself in thy changing waves 0 joyous god
1 imbibe thee Sea of light
My self-of-light I engulf'Thee!n

LANGUAGE

Scriabins tonality

Two criteria to resolve tension:

CONTRAPUNCTAL CRITERION
FUNCTIONAL CRITERION (tonality)
19th Century Chromaticism
Dominant Function
Tristan Chord
The TRITONE

 French sixth
Scriabin sixth
German sixth

Whole tone scale with Dominant function

SONATA op. 30
No. 4

Brief analysis

FIRST MOVEMENT

MEASURES

HARMONY

1-7

I(implicit) V

9 - 17

III#

32 - 34

V/V V

51 - 54

V/V

55 58

V/VI

59 - 66

IV V

Exposition

SECOND MOVEMENT

MEASURES

HARMONY

1-2

I----

17 - 21

V/V

21- 25

V----

25 - 30

VI

30 - 47

IV

MEASURES

HARMONY

48 - 51

A (V/ bVI)

52 - 55

D (bVI)

66 - 69

D6

70 - 73

D7 (+6)

74 - 75

V--

Development

episode

MEASURES

HARMONY

82 - 85

86 - 89

90 - 101

102 - 11

I IV

111-28

IV V I

129 - 35

D (bVI) V/V

136 - 39

V----

144 - 57

I V/V

158- 59

V----

169 onwards

I-----

Recapitulation

 BAKER James, (1986) The Music of A. Scriabin (Composers of the Twentieth

Century). Yale University Press
Sabaneyev L.L, (200): Reminiscences on Scriabin. Klassika-XXI, Moscow
Bowers Fauboin, (2011): Scriabin, a Biography. Dover Publications
Taruskin Richard, (1997): Defining Russia Musically. Princeton University
Press.

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