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Music Example 9. Culmination and Finale of the Exposition. Theme of the Creative Will in the Piano in Fast Harmonic and Color Rhythm

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Scriabin's dazzling fast runs and trills, lightning bolts, and rapidly changing colors and Mystic tonalities in the finale of the exposition perform the merger of tones and colors as they vanish into nothingness. Scriabin here prefigures the coda of "Prometheus" intimating the apocalyptic union and dematerialization he strove for.

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  1. Scriabin, “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire,” 1909-10. Click on the Annotations Button for Music Examples 7-9.

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