The Festival of Ensorceling

The Festival of Ensorceling is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the dwarf Zon Gleefulpaged. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. Two to four chanters recite the words of And We Sang 'Lemon!'. The entire performance should evoke tears and is at a free tempo, and it is to be moderately soft. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the bemong scale and in the enir rhythm.

• Each chanter always does the main melody. The voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The Festival of Ensorceling has a simple structure: a passage.
• 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 bemong hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named nicol and mabdug.
• The nicol trichord is the 1st, the 3rd 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 enir rhythm is made from two patterns: the libash and the ibruk. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The libash rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named lakish (spoken la) and asdos (as). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - |
• where 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 early autumn of 125, The Festival of Ensorceling was created by the dwarf Zon Gleefulpaged in Bearpacked