The Hoary Beans
The Hoary Beans is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Lebeyu originally devised by the human Mistrum Dawnbuttered. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A speaker recites any composition of The Tulip of Rams while the music is played on a dagi and a lolathe. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The melody has phrases of varied length, while the counterpoint has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to make trills and play arpeggios.
- The speaker always should be graceful.
- The dagi always does the counterpoint melody and should be melancholic.
- The lolathe always does the main melody and should be passionate.
- The Hoary Beans has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a lengthy introduction and a verse and a chorus all repeated one to two times.
- The introduction is at a hurried pace, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The lolathe stays in the rugged high register and the dagi covers its entire range from the resonant low register to the harsh high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords.
- The verse is very slow, and it is to be moderately soft. The lolathe stays in the rugged high register and the dagi ranges from the resonant low register to the rugged middle register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
- The chorus is extremely fast, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The lolathe ranges from the nasal low register to the rippling middle register and the dagi ranges from the rugged middle register to the harsh high register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage should be performed using glides.
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