The Panther of Fog

The Panther of Fog is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Aditha Hailedbeaches the Glacial originating in The Persuasive Berry. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Three speakers recite any composition of The Butterfly of Tundras while the music is played on a lale, a fime and one to two zecalo. The musical voices join in melody, counterpoint and harmony. The melody has short phrases, while the counterpoint has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the aratha scale and in the etini rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play rapid runs, alternate tension and repose, play legato and spread syllables over many notes.

• Each speaker always should feel agitated.
• The lale always does the counterpoint melody and should perform with feeling.
• The fime always does harmony and should be energetic.
• Each zecalo always does the main melody and should be passionate.
• The Panther of Fog has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage is moderately fast, and it is to be moderately loud.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The aratha hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named adi and fela.
• The adi tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd and the 6th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The fela trichord is the 8th, the 10th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The etini rhythm is made from two patterns: the otoga and the cede. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The otoga rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beats are named dinade (spoken di), cenopu (ce) and ele (el). 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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