A Wisdom Archive on Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Scriabin - Style and influences. Many of Scriabin's works are written for the piano; the earliest pieces resemble Frederic Chopin and include music in many forms that Chopin himself employed, such as the etude, the prelude and the mazurka. Later works, however, are strikingly original, employing very unusual harmonies and textures. The development of Scriabin's voice or style can be followed in his ten piano sonatas: the earliest are in a fairly conventional late-Romantic idiom and show the influence of ...

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Pasternak was born in Moscow on February 10 (Gregorian), 1890 (Julian January 29). His parents were a prominent Jewish painter Leonid Pasternak, professor at the Moscow School of Painting, who converted to Orthodox Christianity, and Rosa Kaufman, a popular concert pianist. Pasternak was brought up in a cosmopolitan atmosphere, his father's home being visited by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Leo Tolstoy. His father's conversion would naturally impact his future, and many of ...

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Synaesthesia is an often-used poetic device. In a familiar example, Andrew Marvell characterized the fruitful and serene atmosphere of the garden as Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade ( —"The Garden") Likewise, Nick Carraway, the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, recounts "yellow cocktail music" playing at one of Gatsby's parties. Synaesthesia as a drug effect played a role in the popular song "Lake Shore Drive" by Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah: Sometimes you can smell the green When your mind is feeling fin ...

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Octatonic scale - In Jazz. Both the true diminished and its partner mode (with a semitone rather than a tone beginning the pattern) are commonly used in Jazz improvisation, frequently under different names. The diminished scale is commonly used in conjunction with diminished harmony (e.g. the "C dim" harmony) and its partner mode - more commonly known as a "half-tone whole-tone" scale- in dominant harmony (e.g. with a "G7b9" harmony.) In more advanced improvisation, the scale may be used in other circumstances, for example with a minor-major chord.

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List of Russians - Architects. Vasily Bazhenov (1738-1799) Savva Chevakinsky (1709-between 1774 and 1780) Matvei Kazakov (1738-1812) Andrey Kvasov (1720 - after 1770) Alexander Kokorinov (1725-1772) Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974) Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin (1700–1763) Alfred Alexandrovich Parland (1842-1920) Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771) Carlo Rossi (architect) (1775-1849) Andrey Schtakenshneider (1802-1865) ...

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Musical studies have been composed since the 18th century, most notably by Carl Czerny, but it was Chopin who transformed the etude into an important musical genre. Etudes can be in many forms and are sometimes grouped into larger schemes — Robert Schumann's Études symphoniques bears the title, in its second version, Études en forme de Variations. [1] Etudes for other instruments have been written as well, for example Rodolphe Kreutzer's etudes for the ...

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List of compositions for piano and orchestra - Piano concertos. Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ...

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Eccentricity is necessarily defined relatively. For the purposes of this article, an eccentric is someone whose behaviour, beliefs and/or hobbies deviate in a significant way from the accepted norms of their society, but otherwise can function largely as normal in society. He or she may be regarded as strange, odd or at least unconventional, irregular and erratic. Other people may regard the eccentric with apprehension but also with amusement. People behave in "eccentric" ways for many reasons. Sometimes, particular patterns of ...

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Blavatsky was influenced by the following authors: William Blake Edward Bulwer-Lytton Blavatsky influenced the following authors, artists and musicians: Annie Besant C.W. Leadbeater Raghavan Iyer Sir Edwin Arnold Col. James Churchward Aleister Crowley Charles Johnston James Joyce Wassily Kandinsky Max Theon Piet Mondrian Boris Pasternak Nicholas Roerich George W. Russell

Pasternak spent the summer of 1917 living in steppe near Saratov, where he fell in love with a Jewish girl. These passions resulted in the collection My Sister Life, which he wrote for three months and was embarrassed to publish for 4 years. When it finally appeared in 1921, the book had revolutionary impact upon Russian poetry. It made Pasternak the model of imitation for younger poets, and decisively changed the poetic manners of Osip Mand ...

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By 1932, Pasternak strikingly reshaped his style to make it acceptable to Soviet public and printed the new collection of poems aptly entitled The Second Birth. Although its Caucasian pieces were as brilliant as the earlier efforts, the book alienated the core of Pasternak's refined audience abroad. He simplified his style even further for the next collection of patriotic verse, Early Trains (1943), which prompted Nabokov to describe Pasternak as a "weepi ...

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List of Russians - A-N. Yuri Artyukhin Pavel Belyayev (1925-1970) Georgi Beregovoi (1921-1995) Valery Bykovsky Lev Demin Georgi Dobrovolski Vladimir Dzhanibekov Konstantin Feoktistov Anatoli Filipchenko Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), first human in space Viktor Gorbatko Georgi Grechko Aleksei Gubarev Alexandr Kaleri Yevgeny Khrunov Pyotr Klimuk Vladimir Komarov ...

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List of Russians - A-K. Alexei Abrikosov, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, mathematician Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, astronomer and astrophysicist Delibash Boris Apostolovich, worked on the Sputnik program. Lev Artsimovich, physicist Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, mathematician Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Nobel Prize winner Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, mathematician Vladimir Mikhailovich Behterev, psycholog ...

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List of Russians - Before 1917. See also Tsar for the list of old Russian rulers Alexis (1629-1676), "Aleksey Mikhaylovich the Quietest" Alexander I (1777-1825), "Alexander the Blessed" Alexander II (1818-1881), "Alexander the Liberator" Alexander III (1845-1894), "Alexander the Peacemaker" Alexandra (1872-1918), Tsarina of Russia Alexius Petrovich (1690-1718) Anastasia (1901-1918), youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II ...

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