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

Octavio A. Agustín-Aquino; Guerino Mazzola

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21392-3_1

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

arXiv:1606.05833 · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21392-3_1

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 $χ^{2}$ 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.

Submitted to the conference Mathematics and Computation in Music 2019 (MCM 2019). Some serious errors were corrected