The Glittery Tulips

The Glittery Tulips is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Nation of Meeting. 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 thrimes. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the cish scale and in the renal rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play staccato and play legato.

• The thrimes always does the main melody and should be melancholic.
• The Glittery Tulips has the following structure: a lengthy passage and another one to two passages possibly all repeated.
• The first simple passage is at a free tempo, and it is to be soft. The thrimes covers its entire range from the muddy low register to the rippling high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage should be composed and performed using locally improvisation. The passage should often include a rising melody pattern with sharpened third degree.
• Each of the second simple passages is at a walking pace, and it is to be loud. The thrimes stays in the muddy low register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are ani (spoken an, 5th), shato (sha, 11th) and almef (al, 12th).
• The cish hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th, the 6th, the 9th and the 11th.
• The renal rhythm is made from two patterns: the musda and the uzu. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The musda 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.
• The uzu rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beats are named onaf (spoken on), agthreb (ag) and kaslal (ka). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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