The Cerulean Verse

The Cerulean Verse is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Persuasive Berry. 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 fime. The entire performance should be triumphant. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to locally improvise, alternate tension and repose, play arpeggios and play legato.

• The fime always does the main melody.
• The Cerulean Verse has the following structure: a lengthy verse and a chorus all repeated one times.
• The verse slows and broadens, and it is to become louder and louder. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage is performed using the datome scale and in free rhythm. The passage should sometimes include a falling-rising melody pattern with flattened fifth degree on the fall as well as trills, often include a falling melody pattern with trills, always include a rising melody pattern with trills and sometimes include a rising-falling melody pattern.
• The chorus is moderately fast, and it is to be loud. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the imeri scale and in the ile rhythm. The passage should often include a rising melody pattern with glides, trills, rapid runs and staccato, sometimes include a falling melody pattern with sharpened seventh degree, sharpened fifth degree and flattened third degree as well as glides and trills and sometimes include a falling-rising melody pattern with mordents.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The datome hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named adi and thili.
• The adi tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd and the 6th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The thili trichord is the 8th, the 12th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The imeri heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named adi and fomire.
• The fomire tetrachord is the 8th, the 10th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The ile rhythm is made from two patterns: the timafi and the amama. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The timafi rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beats are named emu (spoken em) and upe (up). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | x - | x x | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The amama rhythm is a single line with five beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x X x x x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat and | indicates a bar.

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