Scriabin Bibliography
I. Books about Scriabin's music
- James M. Baker, The Music of Alexander Scriabin, Composers of the Twentieth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press,1986)
- Varvara Dernova, "Garmonia Skriabina": A Translation and Critical Commentary, (Russian original: Leningrad: Muzyka, 1968)*
- Roy J. Guenther, "Varvara Dernova's System of Analysis of the Music of Skriabin." Russian Theoretical Thought in Music, Ed. Gordon D. McQuere. (Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1983)*
- Hugh Macdonald, Skryabin, Oxford Studies of Composers (London: Oxford University Press, 1978)
- Samuel Randlett, The Nature and Development of Scriabin's Pianistic Vocabulary, (Ph.D. Dissertation: UMI, 1966)*
II. Biographies
- Faubion Bowers, The New Scriabin: Enigma and Answers (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973)
- Faubion Bowers, Scriabin, two volumes (Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1969)
- Victor Y. Delson, Skryabin, in Russian (Moscow: Musica, 1971)
- A.I. Kandinsky, ed., Alexandr Nikolaevich Skryabin, in Russian (Moskow: Musica,1979)
- A.I. Kandinsky, ed., Scriabin, translated by Tatyana Chistyakova (Neptune City: Paganiniana Publications, Inc., 1984)
- Manfred Kelkel, Alexandre Scriabine (Paris: Editions Champion, 1984)
- Boris de Schloezer, Scriabin: artist and mystic, translated by Nicolas Slonimsky (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987)
- Alexander Skrjabin, Briefe (Letters), translated into German by Christoph Hellmundt (Leipzig: Verlag Philipp Reclam, 1988)
- Alfred J. Swan, Scriabin (New York: Da Capo Press, 1969)
III. Sections in General Music References
- James Bakst, A History of Russian-Soviet Music (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1966)
- Marion Bauer, Twentieth Century Music (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1934)
- Victor M. Belaiev, Musorgsky, Scriabin, Stravinsky, in Russian (Moscow: Musica, 1972)
- Donald Brook, Six Great Russian Composers (London: Templar Press, 1946)
- Gladys Burch, Modern Composers for Young People (New York: A.S.Barnes & Co., 1946)
- John L. Holmes, Composers on Composers (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990)
- Richard Anthony Leonard, A History of Russian Music (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1957, 1968)
- M. Montagu-Nathan, A History of Russian Music (London: William Reeves, 1918)
- George Perle, Serial Composition and Atonality (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968)
- Elsa Z. Posell, Russian Composers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1967)
- Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, ed., Nietzsche in Russia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986)
- Leonid Sabaneyeff, Modern Russian Composers, translated by Judah A. Joffe, (New York: International Publishers, 1927)
- Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987)
IV. Articles in Periodicals
- Clavier, September 1975. (The entire issue is devoted to Scriabin: "A Scriabin Centennial Feature")*
- John Ramsey, The Death Chart of Alexander Scriabin, in "Gnostic Review" (Chicago: Giordanisti Press, Spring 1979)
- Jay Reise, Late Skriabin: Some Principles Behind the Style, in "19th Century Music" (Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring 1983)
* - Thanks to Joan Navarre
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