Affiliation:
1. Louisiana State University
Abstract
An integral feature in many of Scriabin’s late musical narratives is the presence of an atonal problem—a musical event that threatens a harmony which the piece is based on. I offer a new interpretation of Scriabin’s late music, in which the idea of an atonal problem becomes a defining feature of his style (after op. 58). This atonal problem is defined as a non-chord tone, which disrupts the balance of the collection (octatonic, whole-tone, or Mystic) which the work is based on. Drawing from Schoenberg’s concept of a tonal problem and from Straus’s expansion of this concept in Disability Studies in music, I use Scriabin’s piano miniatures to show that, within each work, a single pitch class always stands out registrally, dynamically, and/or rhythmically, and becomes an important staple of Scriabin’s late style. Thus, the accommodation of this “wrong” note no longer represents that pitch class as a disruptive note, but rather it adds to the unique aspect of that work.
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