Friday, November 6, 2009

Prometheus scale

The Prometheus scale is so called because of its prominent use in Alexander


Scriabin's symphonic poem Prometheus: The Poem of Fire. Scriabin himself called


this set of pitches, voiced as the simultaneity (in ascending order) C F(sharp) B(flat)


E A D the "mystic chord". Others have referred to it as the "Promethean chord".

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