The Prim Lark

The Prim Lark is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the goblin Stozu Dreadsmeared. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Three chanters recite any composition of The Girdled Thimbles. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in the gosma rhythm.

• Each chanter always does the main melody and should perform sweetly. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The Prim Lark has the following structure: one to two passages and an additional passage.
• Each of the first simple passages is very fast, and it is to be in whispered undertones. Each passage is performed using the nol scale.
• The second simple passage is at a walking pace, and it is to become louder and louder. The passage is performed using the nuklat scale.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The nol heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a perfect fifth and a major third. These chords are named ogo and slulasp.
• The ogo pentachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The slulasp trichord is the 9th, the 12th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The nuklat hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a perfect fifth and a major third. These chords are named ekxox and ok.
• The ekxox tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 6th and the 8th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The ok trichord is the 9th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The gosma rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into eight bars in a 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | 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 151, The Prim Lark was created by the goblin Stozu Dreadsmeared in Dreadscorpions