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

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-21392-3_1zbMATH Open1456.00050arXiv1606.05833OpenAlexW2890154363MaRDI QIDQ5237253FDOQ5237253

Octavio Alberto Agustín-Aquino, Guerino Mazzola

Publication date: 17 October 2019

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

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

counterpointmystic chordScriabin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics and music (00A65)

Cites Work

• Computational counterpoint worlds. Mathematical theory, software, and experiments
• The topos of music I: theory. Geometric logic, classification, harmony, counterpoint, motives, rhythm
• Counterpoint in 2k-tone equal temperament

Cited In (1)

• Musicological, computational, and conceptual aspects of first-species counterpoint theory

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