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Scriabin used this chord in what George Perle calls a pre- serial manner, producing harmonies, chords, and melodies. However, unlike the twelve tone technique to which Perle refers, Scriabin did not use his synthetic chord as an ordered set and did not worry about repeating or omitting notes.
Nicolas SlonimskyNicolas Slonimsky ( April 27, 1894 December 25, 1995) was a Russian- American composer, conductor, music critic, musician, and author. He immigrated to the United States in 1923. Slonimsky wrote Baker's Dictionary of Music & Musicians and was head editor compares the synthetic chord to a "typical terminal" chord of jazz, rag-time, and rock, the major tonic chord with an added sixth and ninth (if the root is C: C, G, E, A, D), and to Debussy's post-Wagnerian "enhanced" dominant seventh chords. If one moves the F# up to G and the A up to Bb, one is left with a familiar dominant seventh (added ninth).Jim Samson (1977, p.156-7) points out that it fits in well with Scriabins predominately dominant quality sonorities and harmony as it may take on a dominant quality on C or F# (a tritone, also important in Scriabin's harmony).