The Music of Poetry

The Music of Poetry is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the human Dotep Stoodace. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. One to two singers recite The Chartreuse Fragrance while the music is played on a caquot. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is moderately fast. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the nek scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use grace notes, locally improvise and spread syllables over many notes. From beginning to end, when improvising, artists should always include a falling-rising melody pattern with flattened third degree on the rise, often include a rising melody pattern with sharpened third degree as well as legato and sometimes include a rising-falling melody pattern with sharpened third degree on the rise as well as mordents and rapid runs.

• Each singer always does the main melody.
• The caquot always provides the rhythm.
• The Music of Poetry has the following structure: a verse and a chorus possibly all repeated.
• The verse should be made sweetly, and it is to fade into silence. Each of the singers' voices ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The chorus should be made with skill, and it is to be moderately loud. Each of the singers' voices stays in the low register.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are ani (spoken an, 5th), shato (sha, 11th) and almef (al, 12th).
• The nek pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th, the 7th and the 8th.

Events

• In late winter of 163, The Music of Poetry was created by the human Dotep Stoodace in Markstir