Contrapuntal Aspects of the Mystic Chord and Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 5

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-21392-3_1MaRDI QIDQ5237253zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Octavio Alberto Agustín-Aquino, Guerino Mazzola

Publication date 17 October 2019

Published in Mathematics and Computation in Music (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05833

zbMATH Keywords

counterpointmystic chordScriabin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics and music (00A65)

Abstract: We present statistical evidence for the importance of the "mystic chord" in Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53, from a computational and mathematical counterpoint perspective. More specifically, we compute the effect sizes and $ch{i}^2$ tests with respect to the distributions of counterpoint symmetries in the Fuxian and mystic counterpoint worlds in two passages of the work, which provide evidence of a qualitative change between them.

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