The Saffron Song

The Saffron Song is a devotional form of music originating in The Passionate Scourge. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites The Page of Sisters. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed using the nuklat scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use mordents and spread syllables over many notes.

• The singer always does the main melody and should be bright. The voice stays in the low register.
• The Saffron Song has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage is at a hurried pace, and it is to be in whispered undertones.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the nuklat heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named lubu and slulasp.
• The lubu tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The slulasp tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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