Rethinking Scriabin

Lindsey Macchiarella is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her primary area of research is early musical modernism in fin-de-siècle France and Russia, and she is published in journals such as Music in Art, Keyboard Perspectives, and the Journal of the Scriabin Society of America. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Scriabin Society of America and is lead editor of Rethinking Scriabin.Christoph Flamm is Professor of Musicology at the University of Heidelberg. He is the editor of Transcending Nationalism? (2025), and Nikolai Medtner: Music, Aesthetics, and Contexts (2021), among other volumes.Vasilis Kallis is Professor of Music at the University of Nicosia. He is the co-editor of Demystifying Scriabin (2022), and the author of numerous articles in journals such as Music Analysis, Music Theory Online, and Rivista di analisi e teoria musicale. Simon Nicholls is a pianist andindependent scholar. Previously, he was Professor of Music at Royal College of Music, London, and taught piano at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He is the translator and editor of The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin (2018).

• Simon Nicholls, Preface Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration, Bibliography, and Dates Introduction 1: Marina Frolova-Walker, "The Man Behind the Curtain" In Dialogue 2: Wendelin Bitzan, "Scriabin and Medtner: Latent Influences and Intercommunities" 3: Lindsey Macchiarella, "Scriabin the Wagnerian: Reception and Influence"4: David Haas, "Scriabin's Leitmotivic Technique: The Progress of a Method"5: Jared Redmond, "Korsakov Scales, the Mystic Chord, and Scriabin's Influence on Harmony in the 1920s Soviet Avant-Garde"6: Wai-Ling Cheong, "Scriabin's Metric and Rhythmic Modernism: Messiaenian Perspectives" Multimodalities7:Areg Mekhakyan, "Sacred Dance in Scriabin's Synthesis of the Arts: Greek and Indian Parallels"8: Simon Nicholls, "Scriabin and Language"9: Miriam Asatryan, "Hypersphere: The Fourth Dimension in a Drawing by Scriabin"10: Kenneth Smith and Ian Costabile, "Scriabin's 'Irrlicht': Lights, Colors, and Insects in Scriabin's Tenth Sonata" Transitions11: Keith Salley, "Functional Conflation, Invariance, and Referentiality in Scriabin's Early Works"12: Lance Russell, "The Union of Tonality and Dual-Polarity in Scriabin's Transitional Works"13: Vasilis Kallis, "On Scriabin's Transitional Period (1903 -1908): From Harmonic Function to Scalar Quality" Late Style 14: Adrian Childs, "Quantum Metaphors and Scriabin's Late Preludes"15: Christoph Flamm, "The Future of the Past? Tertiary Sub-harmonies in Scriabin's Late Sonatas" Index