How To Use Scriabin In A Sentence
- His early works show prominent influence from Chopin's pianistic quality (allegedly the young Scriabin slept with Chopin's score under his pillow!
- The pieces were a Schubert-Liszt transcription and a study by Scriabin.
- It was the litany of fruity vowels and partisan plosives of the Russian language that inspired Musorgsky; likewise, Scriabin manipulated hemiolas and syncopes to mimic the rhythms of his native tongue.
- The Scriabin piano pieces go well in these viola transcriptions.
- LYCEUM CHAMBER CONCERT, by pianist Alexander Beresovsky, works by Schumann, Scriabin and Chopin. 3 p.m., the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St., Alexandria and Arlington community events, July 1-8, 2010
- For all the opulent exoticism of his unique harmony, Alexander Scriabin was nothing if not meticulous about musical form and structure.
- His discography has included Scriabin, Shostakovich, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Milhaud, and Rodrigo.
- The eclectic score bears this out; it is a rich, cosmopolitan blend of Strauss and Scriabin, with certain intimations of French Impressionism confected by Middle Eastern-sounding arabesques and layered harmonies. Passion and Pyrotechnics Fit for a King
- Scriabin's early works, until about 1903, are lyrical and effusive, formally inspired by Chopin (waltzes, mazurkas, ballades, preludes, impromptus and scherzos), though where content was concerned his voice was very much his own.
- Scriabin's color-symphonies, Kandinsky's "improvisations," and all manner of elaborate invention - not to mention neo-spiritual movements such as Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy - spurred experiment in cross-media artwork throughout the western world about a hundred years ago. Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music