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Modernism in Russian Piano Music: Skriabin, Prokofiev, and Their Russian Contemporaries

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by Peter Deane Roberts
1993
Published by: Indiana University Press
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The purpose of this study is to review some of the techniques developed by Russian composers in the early part of the twentieth century, down to the active assertion of state control of the arts in the Soviet Union, which began in 1929. The study centers principally on music for the piano, with an emphasis on harmony and both tonal and nontonal structures.

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Cover

Half Title Page

Russian Music Studies Editor Information

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction and Historical Background

2 Skriabin: Harmony and Tonality

3 Composers Influenced by Skriabin

4 Prokofiev: An Enlarged Tonal System

5 Techniques Associated with the Russian School

6 Some General Aspects of Technique

7 Tonality and Tonal Structures

8 A New Aesthetlc: Symmetry as a Basis of Structure

9 Scales: Their Origins and Application

10 Bichords, Bltonallty, and Polymodality

11 Constructional Principles

12 Sonata Forms

13 Sets and Other Nontonal Techniques

14 A Summing Up and an Assessment

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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