Doutoramento em Música e Musicologia
Alexander Scriabin: the definition of a new sound space in the crisis of tonality
Luís Miguel Coelho

 Orientação: Paulo de Assis & Benoît Gibson

This dissertation describes the new compositional system introduced by Scriabin in 1909-1910, focusing on Feuillet d’ Album op.58, Poéme op. 59, nº 1, Prélude op. 59, nº 2 and Promethée op. 60. Based upon exhaustive pitch and formal analysis the present study (a) claims the inexistence of non-functional pitches in all analyzed works, (b) shows that transpositional procedures have structural consequences on the “basic chord”, and the slow Luce line in Promethée op. 60.

Keywords: Scrabin, Prometheus, Mystic Chord, Synaesthesia, Theosophy.