The Bright Treasures

The Bright Treasures is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of The Wealths of Charcoal originally devised by the dwarf Erush Chantchannels. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on two kudar and a merseth. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is to be very soft. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the tosid scale and in the ugath rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to modulate frequently.

• Each kudar always provides the rhythm, should feel tender and plays staccato.
• The merseth always does the main melody and should feel mournful.
• The Bright Treasures has a simple structure: a lengthy passage.
• The simple passage gradually slows as it comes to an end. The passage should be composed and performed using rapid runs.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the tosid hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named bidok and zustash.
• The bidok trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The zustash tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ugath rhythm is made from two patterns: the ish and the ugog. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The ish rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into two bars in a 8-8 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - - - x - x | X x x x x x - x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The ugog rhythm is a single line with five beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | X x - - x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In early autumn of 171, The Bright Treasures was created by the dwarf Erush Chantchannels in Mellowjumps in order to glorify his deity The Wealths of Charcoal after praying to The