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Topic: Urgent Scriabin Help!!  (Read 1359 times)

Offline Nightscape

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Urgent Scriabin Help!!
on: June 11, 2005, 04:30:17 AM
I am embarking on a great Scriabinic task - I wish to learn all of his published piano music.  Yes, it will take many, many years, but the journey will be worth the effort.  I will be learning these apart from my usual required pieces given by my professor, etc.  I have already started and have learned his opus 1 and opus 2.  However, I've run into a huge problem with opus 3 (10 mazurkas).  The book I have (Dover - "Other Works") is riddled with errors.  Errors everyhere!  Accidentals missing, crooked staves and bar lines and virtually no fingerings, phrase marks or articulations (and very few dynamic markings). I don't know if Scriabin actually indicated these things, but usually and editor makes some suggestions or at least something.

So, I was wondering what the best editions for Scriabin's piano works are, or if any besides the Dover even exist!  (Note, that by Dover I mean the editions Dover uses.  For opus 3 for example, they use Jurgenson 1893 - very old!)
If no others exist, I may just have to resort to compiling my own edition as I go along - with correct notes and some suggestions for phrasing and things.

Offline quantum

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Re: Urgent Scriabin Help!!
Reply #1 on: June 11, 2005, 04:51:45 AM
From my examination of the Dover scores, a lot of the mistakes that appear are not by the editor but rather the engraver.  You will find such things as misplaced or missing ties, accidentals, beams, misalignment of RH and LH staff, etc.  For my final project in my notation and engraving course I chose to edit Op. 65 Nr.1 and came up with similar problems.  Since Scribins music has definite patterns it is easy to root out most errors in the Dover edition. 

With regard to the Dover edition, the editions they chose to reprint are reliable as long as you can put up with the engraving errors.  I usually cross reference Edition Peters as it has very useful fingerings and will clear up descrepencies from the Dover score. 

My suggestions for your huge task: allways be working on a sonata (they take long to learn and you can alternate this big task with learning smaller pieces), refer to Edition Peters for fingering - they also include some of Scriabin's fingering which clarify akwarkd feeling sections. 

Good Luck
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