The Rhyming Petals

The Rhyming Petals is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the elf Penopu Wispyfancied. 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 feferi and a ethefa. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is to be very soft. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the lari scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to alternate tension and repose and play arpeggios.

• The feferi always should perform with feeling. The voice ranges from the raucous low register to the strident middle register.
• The ethefa always does the main melody and should be melancholic.
• The Rhyming Petals has the following structure: a theme and a series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The theme is voiced by the melody of the ethefa. The passage gradually slows as it comes to an end. The ethefa ranges from the watery middle register to the shrill high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The series of variations is voiced by the melody of the ethefa and the rhythm of the feferi. The passage is at a free tempo. The ethefa ranges from the strident low register to the watery middle register and the feferi ranges from the raucous low register to the strident middle register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four 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 otoga (spoken ot) and dinade (di).
• The lari hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a tritone and a perfect fourth. These chords are named imeri and fela.
• The imeri trichord is the 1st, the 8th and the 13th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The fela tetrachord is the 15th, the 17th, the 22nd and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.

Events

• In late summer of 149, The Rhyming Petals was created by the elf Penopu Wispyfancied in Valebrother