The Carmine Lute

The Carmine Lute is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Persuasive Berry. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds. The entire performance is moderately paced. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in the alo rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to locally improvise and alternate tension and repose.

• The singer always does the main melody and should feel playful. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The Carmine Lute has a simple structure: a brief passage.
• The simple passage is to be very soft. The passage is performed using the lari scale. The passage should always include a falling melody pattern with glides, mordents and arpeggios, sometimes include a rising-falling melody pattern with grace notes, trills and arpeggios and always include a rising melody pattern with flattened sixth degree as well as mordents.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The lari hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named datha and aweme.
• The datha trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 6th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The aweme tetrachord is the 8th, the 9th, the 10th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The alo rhythm is made from two patterns: the arazi and the cede. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The arazi rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beats are named fidale (spoken fi), tarathe (ta) and cuthefi (cu). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The cede rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | x - | x - | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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