The Carmine Tress

The Carmine Tress is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Contested Storm. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Three to five chanters recite The Scintillating Lenses. The entire performance is slow. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the timafi rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note and locally improvise.

• Each chanter always does the main melody, should bring a sense of motion and matches notes and syllables.
• The Carmine Tress has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a theme, an exposition of the theme, a bridge-passage and a recapitulation of the theme.
• The theme is to be moderately loud. Each of the chanters' voices stays in the middle register.
• The exposition is to fade into silence. Each of the chanters' voices ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The bridge-passage is to become louder and louder. Each of the chanters' voices ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The recapitulation is to become louder and louder. Each of the chanters' voices stays in the high register.
• The timafi rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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