The Silver of Control

The Silver of Control is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Lenod originating in The Mahogany Mine. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a okin. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale.

• The okin always provides the rhythm, should feel calm and plays legato.
• The Silver of Control has the following structure: a verse and a chorus all repeated two times.
• The verse gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to be soft. The passage is performed in free rhythm.
• The chorus slows and broadens, and it is to become softer and softer. The passage is performed in the enir rhythm. The passage should be composed and performed using staccato.
• The enir rhythm is made from two patterns: the thoth and the olmul. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The thoth 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 - - - |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The olmul rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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