The Luxuries of Sparkling
The Luxuries of Sparkling is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the dwarf Doren Tombsgalleys. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A speaker recites any composition of The Lute of Pantomimes while the music is played on two kudar. The musical voices are purely rhythmic. The entire performance is to start loud then be immediately soft. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the enir rhythm.
- The speaker always should perform with feeling.
- Each kudar always provides the rhythm, should sparkle and adds fills.
- The Luxuries of Sparkling has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a brief introduction and a theme and one to two lengthy series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
- The introduction is at a free tempo. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
- The theme is moderately fast. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
- Each of the series of variations is extremely fast. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
- The enir rhythm is made from two patterns: the ugog and the emuth. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
- The ugog rhythm is a single line with five beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
- | X x - - x |
- where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
- The emuth rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into eight bars in a 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
- | x x | - x | - x | x x | - x | x x | x - | - x |
- where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
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