The Teal Periwinkle

The Teal Periwinkle is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Zepave Fishweather originally devised by the elf Kifino Leafprices. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a arabe. The entire performance should evoke tears. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the fomire scale. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to alternate tension and repose.

• The arabe always does the main melody.
• The Teal Periwinkle has the following structure: an introduction and a passage.
• The introduction is consistently slowing, and it is to be soft. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed in the mafina rhythm. The passage should be composed and performed using grace notes and legato.
• The simple passage is fast, and it is to be loud. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage is performed in free rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The fomire hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a tritone and a perfect fourth. These chords are named ifife and warere.
• The ifife trichord is the 1st, the 6th and the 7th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The warere tetrachord is the 8th, the 9th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The mafina rhythm is made from two patterns: the thuna and the upe. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The thuna rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 8-8-8-8 pattern. The beats are named arazi (spoken ar), fidale (fi), tarathe (ta), cuthefi (cu), cede (ce), otoga (ot), dinade (di) and ele (el). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x - - x - x | - - x - - - - - | x x x x x x x x | - - x - x x x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The upe rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In late spring of 170, The Teal Periwinkle was created by the elf Kifino Leafprices in Twinkletour in order to glorify her deity Zepave Fishweather after praying to Zepave