Scriabin's Poem Of "ecstasy" Music

With the development of aesthetics, philosophy, science and many other aspects in late 19th century to early 20th century, composers began to search for their own way in writing based on the traditional way. Scriabin has always been a controversial figure in the music history, his philosophy, mysticism, and non-traditional creative ideas and techniques has left behind a lot of mystery, and had a great Effect on modernist music. Scriabin's personalized musical expression means "mystery chord" is an important factor in his thinking of harmony. He mixed materialist philosophy of Marxist, Nietzsche's philosophy and mystical philosophy of idealism together and formed a complex music composition idea, individual language and advanced and mixed style in the turn of the centuries. Emergence and development of the mysterious chords was both Scriabin's personal exploration and the turning of late Romantic music is music to the transformation of the of modernism, with its profound historical reasons. As his intermediate stage work, the orchestra "Poem of Ecstasy" is the best example of the inheritance and development of the tradition of the composer. Scriabin was at the turning point of harmony Creation, therefore, the concept of his philosophy of "mystery chord " fully expressed in this work, very different from the Previous. In "Poem of ecstasy", he accurately expressed the variety of emotion with harmony, reflecting numerous subtle levels. Theory analysis as the main clue, this paper study and analysis the article "Poem of Ecstasy" in harmonic characteristics, musical form structure, and music instrument combination characteristics in order to have a better comprehension of the creative thinking and writing skills of the composer.