The Adorable Dessert

The Adorable Dessert is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the dwarf Ral Trottedbrass. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. One to two speakers recite any composition of The Lute of Pantomimes while the music is played on a mishak and a esrel. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is to be soft. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the bemong scale and in the ugath rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to add fills and modulate frequently.

• Each speaker always should stress the rhythm.
• The mishak always does the main melody and should be spirited.
• The esrel always provides the rhythm and should be stately.
• The Adorable Dessert has the following structure: one to two passages and an additional lengthy passage.
• Each of the first simple passages is at a walking pace. The mishak is confined to the flat low register.
• The second simple passage is moderately paced. The mishak ranges from the crisp middle register to the flat high register.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the bemong hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named alak and sedil.
• The alak trichord is the 1st, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The sedil tetrachord is the 1st, the 6th, the 8th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ugath rhythm is made from two patterns: the ish and the ugog. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The ish rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into two bars in a 8-8 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - - - 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 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.

Events

• In midwinter of 120, The Adorable Dessert was created by the dwarf Ral Trottedbrass in Raysplank after a nightmare