Scriabin, Prelude, Opus 67 #2, Presto (piano solo)

Alexander Scriabin's Prelude, opus 67 #2, performed by Stephen Malinowski, accompanied by a scrolling bar-graph score.

FAQ

Q: Where can I get the sheet music for this piece?
A: The score I edited to perform this from can be downloaded here:
http://www.musanim.com/pdf/ScriabinPreludeOpus67n2.pdf
It's unusual in that I laid it out to show the phrasing; as a result, the notes are pretty small.

Q: It sure is a weird piece.
A: Tell me about it. It's very dark

Q: You sure play fast.
A: Actually, I can't take full credit for this; it is a real-time performance, but I did it using the conductor program, which you can read about here:
http://www.musanim.com/tapper

Q: What instrument are you playing?
A: This is the Acoustica "Pianissimo" sampled/synthesized piano:
http://www.acoustica.com/pianissimo/

Q: Is there a way I could make the bar-graph scores myself?
A: The Music Animation Machine MIDI file player will generate this display; you can get the (Windows) software here:
http://www.musanim.com/player/
There are lots of places on the web where you can get MIDI files; I usually go to the Classical Archives site first:
http://www.classicalarchives.com/

Q: Could you please do a MAM video of _________?
A: Please read this:
http://www.musanim.com/all/MAMRequests.html

Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean?
A: The melody is one color, the notes that go with the melody are another color, and in the left hand, the notes that repeat are one color and the ones that don't repeat are another color.
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Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• ominous
• dissonant
• eerie

[lonskilonski]

how did you record this? I really like the sound, so I'd love to know. thank you

[smalin]

@lonskilonski It's a synthetic piano, called Pianissimo, made by a company called Acoustica.

[gsarci2011]

what key is this?

[smalin]

@gsarci2011 It is not "in a key" in the traditional sense; it ends on a chord that's based on the whole-tone scale (the notes in it are C, E, F-sharp, B-flat); there are no sharps or flats in the key signature, but the tonality shifts so much that whatever key signature was used, there would still be accidentals in almost every measure (so none is simplest). If one were forced to pick a key, C would probably be the best answer, but it's like asking "is gray closest to violet, orange or green?"

[nannymac47]

@Holomorfo Hadn't thought of that before but your are right. It was more mathematical than trad. music. I kept listening for some thing familiar and thought I'd locked onto a thought and then... bam, off on another tangent. Full of surprises for such a 'little' piece.

[Aritvvi]

@Holomorfo Different aspects friend. I for one, try and understand what were the feelings of the composer while producing such a thing.

music is a wondrus thing.

[Holomorfo]

@Aritvvi why do you "have" to feel something.. can it be like the sense of perfection when you see geometrical patterns, but insted of seeing them you are hearing them?

[bachopinberg]

@smalin I love this comment! (as I love Scriabin. Ciao!)

[deathroman13]

@Kibaoftheleaves

Same thought here :)

[venpresath]

@smalin That's amazing O.O

[Kibaoftheleaves]

Sounds like he was just warming up before a concert and someone interpereted this as a work of art and wrote down the notes.