The Flowery Droplets

The Flowery Droplets is a devotional form of music originally devised by the elf Alu Daletones. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a nemo. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The melody and counterpoint both have short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the datome scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to alternate tension and repose and play staccato.

• The singer always does the counterpoint melody.
• The nemo always does the main melody.
• The Flowery Droplets has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction, a theme, a lengthy bridge-passage and a brief series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated, a bridge-passage and a finale.
• The introduction should be made with feeling and is slow, and it is to be moderately soft. The nemo covers its entire range from the wavering low register to the strained high register and the singer's voice stays in the middle register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The theme should build as it proceeds and is very slow, and it is to be very loud. The nemo covers its entire range from the wavering low register to the strained high register and the singer's voice covers its entire range. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The first bridge-passage should be made with feeling and is moderately paced, and it is to be moderately loud. The nemo covers its entire range from the wavering low register to the strained high register and the singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The series of variations should feel heroic and accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to be very loud. The nemo covers its entire range from the wavering low register to the strained high register and the singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The second bridge-passage should be jumpy and is at a free tempo, and it is to be very soft. The nemo stays in the strained high register and the singer's voice stays in the middle register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The finale should be broad and is slow, and it is to become softer and softer. The nemo covers its entire range from the wavering low register to the strained high register and the singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are imeri (spoken im) and thuna (thu).
• The datome scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named fathinu and fomire.
• The fathinu trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The fomire trichord is the 8th, the 12th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.

Events

• In late summer of 90, The Flowery Droplets was created by the elf Alu Daletones in Racedskirt