The Lyrical Pantomime

The Lyrical Pantomime is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Amusing Nations. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a raji and a thrasos. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is slow. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the icmon scale and in free rhythm.

• The raji always provides the rhythm and should feel mysterious.
• The thrasos always does the main melody and should perform with a light touch. The voice stays in the liquid high register.
• The Lyrical Pantomime has the following structure: a theme and a lengthy series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The theme is to be in whispered undertones. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The series of variations is to be moderately soft. 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 icmon pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named ilpi and idla.
• The ilpi trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 11th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The idla trichord is the 15th, the 22nd and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.

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