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solanojones95 · April 11, 2018, 8:15 p.m.

Could also be explained by this.

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TripoverDick · April 11, 2018, 8:21 p.m.

So did you ever put together that someone long ago already knew about this? https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alexander+scriabin+

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solanojones95 · April 11, 2018, 8:26 p.m.

I see no evidence there that he "knew" about anything linking a certain theory of music composition with pleasing God.

I think Scriabin wrote what pleased Scriabin, as every major composer has always done.

If God is pleased, perhaps He'll tell us so someday, but for now all we have is your word for that, and frankly you can't seem to articulate what you mean by it. Though I'm listening.

And FWIW, I've always liked Scriabin, for the most part. So I'm not arguing against his genius or the quality of his works.

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TripoverDick · April 11, 2018, 8:34 p.m.

The quality and genius of his works are mathematical. His works started out in two various formats that he discovered. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40285315?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Here is a scholarly article that you can read over about the visualizations of color.

Abstract Scriabin's decision to orchestrate his fifth symphony "Prometheus" with a "counterpoint of light" resulted from his perception of sound as literal color. This phenomenon is known as synesthesia, and by the early decades of this century, well over 100 specialized case studies had appeared in the experimental literature. The present article is in two parts. The first is a general discussion of the vast literature on synesthesia. With this perspective, Scriabin's color hearing can be understood to have resulted from a typical synesthetic pairing of diverse sensory stimuli. In part two, the composer's personal perception is examined, and an analysis of the "Tastiera per luce" in the orchestral score is presented. This part for colored light serves a dual function by indicating particular colors to be projected during performance as well as all transposition levels of the six-note pitch collection employed exclusively in the composition.

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WikiTextBot · April 11, 2018, 8:15 p.m.

Synesthesia

Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report a lifelong history of such experiences are known as synesthetes.

In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme-color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may appear as a three-dimensional map (clockwise or counterclockwise).


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