The Music of Alexander Scriabin

by James E. Baker

Alexander Scriabin was one of a few major composers who revolutionized musical style in the first decade of the twentieth century by eliminating key as a structural principle and by establishing a new use of dissonant harmonies. This book by James M. Baker is a study of Scriabin's twentieth-century music, the first thorough analysis of the composer's evolution from conventional tonality to his later atonal structure. Baker demonstrates that in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300033370
• ISBN13: 9780300033373
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.4"