The Bewildering Satin

The Bewildering Satin is a devotional form of music originally devised by the dwarf Kel Wheeledclashed. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A chanter recites any composition of The Persuaders of Blossoming while the music is played on a belbez and a ekast. The musical voices join in melody, counterpoint and harmony. The entire performance should be made expressively. The melody has mid-length phrases, while the counterpoint has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed in the agek rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note and play legato.

• The chanter always does the main melody.
• The belbez always does harmony. The voice uses its entire range from the pure low register to the heavy high register.
• The ekast always does the counterpoint melody.
• The Bewildering Satin has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a theme and a series of variations on the theme and a coda.
• The theme is at a free tempo, and it is to be very loud. The chanter's voice stays in the high register and the belbez covers its entire range from the pure low register to the heavy high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed using the ontak scale.
• The series of variations is slow, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The chanter's voice covers its entire range and the belbez covers its entire range from the pure low register to the heavy high register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage is performed without preference for a scale.
• The coda is at a free tempo, and it is to be soft. The chanter's voice covers its entire range and the belbez covers its entire range from the pure low register to the heavy high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed using the kulet scale.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are feb (spoken fe) and berim (be).
• The ontak hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named bidok and sedil.
• The bidok trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The sedil tetrachord is the 15th, the 17th, the 19th and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The kulet hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named anam and sedil.
• The anam trichord is the 1st, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The agek rhythm is made from two patterns: the roder and the ibruk.
• The roder rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 8-8-8-8 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x - x - x X - | x X x x - 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 ibruk rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 5-8-10-9 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - - x | - - x x x X - x | x - 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.

Events

• In midautumn of 111, The Bewildering Satin was created by the dwarf Kel Wheeledclashed in Standardblocks