The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin 1st Edition

The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190863661,0190863668,9780190863685, 0190863684

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190863684
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780190863685
• Author: Simon Nicholls

Russian composer Alexander Skryabin’s life spanned the late romantic era and the momentous early years of the twentieth century, but was cut short before the end of the first world war. In a predominantly conservative era in the Russian musical scene, he drew inspiration from poets, philosophers, and dramatists of the Silver Age, a period of radical artistic renewal in Russia. Possessed by an apocalyptic vision of transformation, aspects of which he shared with other Russian thinkers and artists of the period, Skryabin transformed his musical language from a ripe Romantic style into a far-reaching, radical instrument for the expression of his ideas.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
2. Cultural context
3. Biographical elements
4. The Writings of Skryabin (Russkie propilei, Moscow, 1919) 29
5. A Note by Boris de Schloezer on the Preliminary Action
6. Commentary
7. The growth of Skryabin’s thought
8. A ‘philosopher-musician’?
9. The influence of philosophy
10. Music and philosophy
11. Skryabin’s reading
12. Ernest Renan
13. Greek philosophy
14. German idealism
15. Russian philosophy and Russian symbolism
16. Congress at Geneva
17. The influence of theosophy
18. Indian culture
19. Skryabin’s philosophy of music
20. Skryabin’s ‘teaching’
21. Thought in words, music, colour: Skryabin’s developing symbolist practice
22. Skryabin’s poetic language
23. The Poem of Ecstasy: Text and music (1905–8)
24. Prometheus: Music, colour, and the word (1908–10)
25. The Preliminary Action
26. A preliminary to what?—‘The idea of the Mystery’ (Leonid Sabaneyev)
27. Performance as sacrament
28. The music for the Preliminary Action
29. People and publications
30. Leonid Sabaneyev
31. Mikhail Gershenzon and Russkie propilei
32. Supplementary Texts by Alexander Skryabin
33. Biographical notes
34. Bibliography

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