The Pristine Luxuries

The Pristine Luxuries is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the elf Aye Hailedthunders. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a nithara. The entire performance should evoke tears. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Pitches are densely packed in clusters as music moves from chord to chord. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed in the thiwa rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play rapid runs, locally improvise and play staccato.

• The nithara always does the main melody.
• The Pristine Luxuries has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage is fast, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. The passage is performed using the cebela scale. The passage should often include a rising-falling melody pattern with sharpened fifth degree on the fall and sharpened third degree on the fall and always include a falling-rising melody pattern with grace notes.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The cebela heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th and the 7th.
• The thiwa rhythm is made from three patterns: the timafi, the etini and the mafina. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The timafi rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named emu (spoken em), upe (up), amama (am) and thafatha (tha). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x`x - - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The etini rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named ile (spoken il), atha (ath), alo (al) and aveya (av). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The mafina rhythm is a single line with seven beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x X x`- - |
• where X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In late autumn of 137, The Pristine Luxuries was created by the elf Aye Hailedthunders in Suitorlyrics