The Skirt-Sister of Cavorting

The Skirt-Sister of Cavorting is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Amusing Nations. 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 raji and a ucshug. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is moderately paced. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed using the nithros scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to alternate tension and repose and play legato.

• The ucshug always does the main melody.
• The Skirt-Sister of Cavorting has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction, a lengthy passage and a coda.
• The introduction is voiced by the melody of the ucshug and the rhythm of the raji. The passage should bring a sense of motion, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The ucshug stays in the watery high register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• The simple passage is voiced by the melody of the ucshug and the rhythm of the raji. The passage should feel mysterious, and it is to be soft. The ucshug covers its entire range from the rippling low register to the watery high register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• The coda is voiced by the melody of the ucshug. The passage should be broad, and it is to be very soft. The ucshug covers its entire range from the rippling low register to the watery high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Every note is named. The names are nek (spoken ne), lastta (la), cish (ci), ani (an), shato (sha), almef (al), onod (on), osp (osp), arin (ar), umo (um), rostfen (ro), hiner (hi), ohe (oh), nazweng (na), tod (to), zomuth (zo), bepa (be), noloc (no), kes (ke), suku (su), musda (mu), uzu (uz), onaf (on) and agthreb (ag).
• The nithros pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named agtha and dik.
• The agtha trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The dik trichord is the 15th, the 21st and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.

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