The Beige Silkiness
The Beige Silkiness is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the elf Thelire Beardisland. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites any composition of The Truth of Poetry. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the warere scale and in the nanotha rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to make trills and play rapid runs.
- The singer always does the main melody and should be forceful. The voice stays in the middle register.
- The Beige Silkiness has a simple structure: three to five lengthy unrelated passages.
- Each of the simple passages is slow, and it is to be loud.
- Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, notes are named according to degree. The names are fathinu (spoken fa), thili (thi), fomire (fo), fela (fe), aweme (aw) and yaniye (ya).
- The warere hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 8th, the 13th, the 16th and the 23rd.
- The nanotha rhythm is made from two patterns: the atho and the mathuva. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
- The atho rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into two bars in a 8-8 pattern. The beats are named datome (spoken da), lari (la), aratha (ar), imeri (im), thuna (thu), fidale (fi), tarathe (ta) and cuthefi (cu). The beat is stressed as follows:
- | x x'x x - - X - | - x - X x x - x |
- where X marks an accented beat, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
- The mathuva rhythm is a single line with thirty-one beats divided into five bars in a 3-5-4-11-8 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
- | x x - | - - - - x | - x - x | x x x - - X x'- x - x | - - - - x - x - |
- where X marks an accented beat, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
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