The Forests of Earth
The Forests of Earth is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Aye the Furs of Heather originally devised by the elf Inefa Thinleaf. 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 ice. The entire performance should be passionate. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note.
- The ice always does the main melody.
- The Forests of Earth has the following structure: a theme and a series of variations on the theme.
- The theme is slow, and it is to become softer and softer. The ice ranges from the watery middle register to the dull high register. The passage is performed without preference for a scale.
- The series of variations is at a walking pace, and it is to be soft. The ice stays in the watery middle register. The passage is performed using the imeri scale.
- Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
- The imeri hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a tritone and a perfect fourth. These chords are named warere and fena.
- The warere tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 4th and the 7th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
- The fena trichord is the 8th, the 9th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
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