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Prometheus (mystic) scale

Scriabin's mystic, soaring

What color?

Scriabin's "mystic" scale (R 9 3 #11 13 b7): a bright, soaring hexatonic, close to Lydian dominant without the fifth. An impressionistic, open color.

Origin & history

Alexander Scriabin's "mystic" scale, derived from his "mystic chord." He drew from it the material of his symphonic poem Prometheus: The Poem of Fire (1910), at the edges of tonality.

Listen

• "Prometheus: The Poem of Fire" — Alexander Scriabin

Which chords to play it on?

Outside the functional consensus: this is an exploration color. Lay it over a vamp or a held chord to tint your improvisation with an unexpected flavor, rather than inside a cadence.

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