Alexander Scriabin Jeffrey Bishop, Arranger

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1 Kos String Orchestra Grade 4 ull Conductor Score SO88 $700 Alexander Scriabin erey Bisho, Arranger Scriabin: Andante SA M L E or String Orchestra Neil A Kos Music Comany ublisher

2 The Arranger Dr erey S Bisho is a music educator, comoser, and conductor rom Kansas City, Kansas erey s comositions or string orchestra, ull orchestra, concert band, and choir have been commissioned and erormed in the nited States, Mexico, and throughout Euroe The reciient o the 997 National School Orchestra Association Comosition Contest Award with his Symhony or Strings No, Bisho has over one hundred instrumental ieces ublished by the Neil A Kos Music Comany, Alred Music, Wingert-ones ublications, and C Alan ublications erey s choral music is distributed exclusively by MusicSokecom erey s music is marked by strong edagogical inluences along with a traditional style that is at times reminiscent o the Renaissance eriod He values melody and harmonic structure and strives to engage the audience as much as the erormers through his music He has aeared as a conductor/clinician or regional and state orchestras in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, Oregon, and South Carolina His conducting style is marked by attention to detail, a strong sense o humor, and the realization that every ensemble has dierent challenges and strengths He believes that every ensemble is caable o reaching their ultimate otential through hard work, dedication, and ractice! L E erey earned his hd in Curriculum Instruction (Music Education Cognate) at Kansas State niversity in 05 While at Kansas State he studied comosition with Dr Craig Weston erey also studied comosition with Dr Walter A Mays, Distinguished roessor o Music at the Wichita State niversity School o Music He is a member o the American Comosers orum and the National Association or Music Education An accomlished conductor, Bisho earned his MM in Orchestral Conducting rom WS in 995 He graduated with his BS in Music Education rom Northwest Missouri State niversity in 99 erey is married to SueZanne and they are the roud arents o two children, Aaron and Emily M erey comletes between three and ive commissions every year or a divergent range o ensembles, rom college/university/civic orchestras and choirs to middle school bands and orchestras Samles o his music can be ound online at his YouTube Channel, wwwyoutubecom/ereysbisho or more inormation on how to commission a iece or your ensemble, lease visit wwwereysbishocom Alexander Scriabin (87-95) SA Alexander Scriabin was born in 87 to a noble amily in Moscow, Russia His talents as a ianist were recognized at a young age, and as a teenager he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where he also began to dabble in comosition Ater his studies, Scriabin traveled extensively and took u residence in numerous cities, including aris, New York, and Brussels He was known as one o the great iano virtuosos o his day Scriabin was heavily inluenced by both Euroean and Asian hilosohy, and he believed in the suernatural He viewed his music as a vehicle to mystical exeriences and ecstasy: To him, music could symbolize the most roound truths o the universe and hel eole transcend the limits o hysical reality This belie shaed every asect o his musical style; consequently, Scriabin s music is comletely unique among early 0th-century comosers in its hilosohical ambitions or examle, his uninished iece Mysterium (or ull orchestra, chorus, vocal soloists, and iano) was intended or erormance in a secially constructed temle in India, and would have united all the arts, including oetry, dancing, lights, and erume Sketches or the iece eature a chord consisting o all the notes in the chromatic scale, which or Scriabin symbolized transcendence Mysterium is one o the most daring ieces in Western music history: it was so vast that a comlete erormance would have taken seven days and seven nights! Scriabin s musical style was highly innovative He was very interested in mathematical symmetry, which was relected in his harmonic sensibility or examle, instead o dividing the octave into a erect ith and a ourth (or examle, C-G-C), as is standard in tonal music, Scriabin avored the interval o a tritone (C--C), which aears requently in his music nusual harmonies and textures characterize many o his mature comositions In his many works or iano, Scriabin stretched tonal music to its breaking oint and beyond in an attemt to symbolize his mystical view o the universe To many music historians, in act, Scriabin was one o the irst genuinely atonal comosers (Atonal music lacks a irm tonal center and does not ollow exected harmonic rules) SO88

3 In addition to his hilosohical belies, Scriabin s music was imacted by a neurological condition called synesthesia Synesthetic eole exerience a mixing o the dierent senses; or examle, tasting colors or eeling smells Like many musicians with synesthesia, to Scriabin musical keys evoked distinct colors: Eb-maor was urlish red, C was brilliant red, A was green, etc These associations were so owerul or him that in rometheus he included a art or an invented instrument, the color organ, which roected colored light on the walls during erormance Scriabin was a celebrity in Russia during the last decade o his lie Today, he is recognized as one o the most original voices in early twentieth-century Russian music Rehearsal Suggestions Because o Scriabin's highly chromatic, almost bitonal harmonies, the conductor should oer the orchestra many oortunities to listen to this style o music and this iece o music in articular Due to the act that, at times, it is in both G and A Maor, careul attention must be aid to all accidentals while listening to those members o the orchestra who corresond to their articular tonal center Additionally, with the chromatic nature o certain hrases (measure is one good examle), strong listening skills and ability to lay with good intonation as individuals, as a section, and as an orchestra are aramount Scriabin exlores the dierences between straight eighth notes, trilet eighth notes, and dotted-eighth sixteenth note igures layers must be made aware that the dotted-eighth sixteenth igure should not be layed like a trilet! The arranger has taken great care in roviding bowings that hel make Scriabin's rhythmic exlorations more easy to achieve, such as measures 7 and 9 where there is a 6/8 vs /4 eel between the uer and lower strings Musicians should also be mindul, due to the "Andante" temo, to take their time on quarter rests, which eel much longer in this work (measure 9 or examle) Lastly, lease note that due to the time signature, there are several hrases that begin on u bows in order to bring about the dynamic hrasing such as in measure 48 in the low strings The arranger has taken great care to suggest bowings that will acilitate the hrasing that Scriabin dictates Even though Scriabin's tonalities can be somewhat challenging at irst, students will gain a great areciation or the harmonic language o the late Romantic/early 0th Century through the erormance o this beautiul iece Enoy! -erey Bisho Instrumentation List (Set C) 8 st Violin 8 nd Violin 5 Viola 5 5 String Bass ull Conductor Score Additional scores and arts are available SAMLE To hear a recording o this iece or any other Kos ublication, lease visit wwwkoscom Credit: The acket and score hotograh was taken at Robertson Sons Violin Sho, Inc, Albuquerque, NM or more inormation about their services, visit: wwwrobertsonviolinscom SO88

4 4 ull Conductor Score Arox erormance time :0 Violins Viola String Bass 5 B Andante (q = 7) 4 4 B n [9] B or the SMNW Camerata Orchestra Scriabin: Andante 6 0 or String Orchestra n 7 n SAMLE Alexander Scriabin (87 95) Arr by erey S Bisho (ASCA) 4 8,, SO88 07 Neil A Kos Music Comany, 48 utland Drive, San Diego, Caliornia, 97 International coyright secured All rights reserved rinted in the S A Warning! The contents o this ublication are rotected by coyright law To coy or reroduce them by any method is an inringement o the coyright law Anyone who reroduces coyrighted matter is subect to substantial enalties and assessments or each inringement

5 5 B 7 B B n 4 8 n 5 9 SAMLE ,, molto rall 4 n n SO88

6 6 A temo, ma con molto rubato (q = 7) [5] 6 n B 9 B B ale [] ale n n n SAMLE III ale ale ale ale - 6 SO88

7 7 B -4 I n [4] Temo rimo (q = 7) 4 n B 45 B n 46 n 4 9 n n oco rall SAMLE 47n , 7 SO88

8 8 49 B b 54 B - I o - 55 III n [5] III 56 o n o - n SAMLE I 57 5 n oco rall 58 n 60 B 6 SO88 - Scriabin: Andante or String Orchestra SO