The Lace of Incense
The Lace of Incense is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the elf Inevi Rootglimmers. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a corowa. The entire performance is at a walking pace, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the arazi rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play arpeggios.
- The corowa always does the main melody and should feel mysterious.
- The Lace of Incense has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and one to two passages and another one to two passages possibly all repeated.
- In the introduction, the corowa ranges from the muddy middle register to the rippling high register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
- In each of the first simple passages, the corowa stays in the muddy middle register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
- In each of the second simple passages, the corowa stays in the muddy middle register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
- The arazi rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 9-11-6-6 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
- | x x x - x x x x - | x - - x - x x x x - x | - - - - - x | - - - - x - |
- where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
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