Drawing largely on handwritten innovation transcriptions of piano-roll recordings, and copies of actual piano rolls by Russian composer Scriabin (1872-1915), Leikin (music, U. of
California-Santa Cruz) analyzes the style in which he interpreted his own music. He discusses Scriabin's music during his time and now, his performing style, case studies of the Welte Rolls and
the Phonola Rolls, and some thoughts of Scriabin and Romantic performing traditions. Many of the transcriptions are included, so readers can follow along, or even play along. Annotation 穢2011
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