The Fancy Satin

The Fancy Satin is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the dwarf Rigoth Inkedangels. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a belbez, two sacat and a ashok. The musical voices bring melody, counterpoint and rhythm. The entire performance is to start loud then be immediately soft. The melody has long phrases, while the counterpoint has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the gost scale and in the dolush rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note, syncopate, add fills and alternate tension and repose.

• The belbez always does the main melody and should be fiery. The voice uses its entire range from the pure low register to the heavy high register.
• Each sacat always does the counterpoint melody and should be broad.
• The ashok always provides the rhythm and should perform with feeling.
• The Fancy Satin has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage slows and broadens.
• 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 gost hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named gatal and mabdug.
• The gatal trichord is the 1st, the 6th and the 11th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The mabdug tetrachord is the 15th, the 18th, the 22nd and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The dolush rhythm is made from two patterns: the roder (considered the primary) and the nel.
• 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 nel rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 8-8-8-8 pattern. The beats are named biban (spoken bi), ugog (ug), ish (ish), robek (ro), olmul (ol), nokzam (no), emuth (em) and fer (fe). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - - x 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.

Events

• In late autumn of 113, The Fancy Satin was created by the dwarf Rigoth Inkedangels in Fountainsprayed