The Lacy Embrace

The Lacy Embrace is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Pink Seduction. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A speaker recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a emo. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance slows and broadens, and it is to become softer and softer. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes and locally improvise.

• The speaker always should evoke tears.
• The emo always does the main melody and should be spirited.
• The Lacy Embrace has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction, one to two lengthy passages and an additional passage possibly all repeated and a coda.
• In the introduction, the emo stays in the raspy middle register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• In each of the first simple passages, the emo covers its entire range from the sonorous low register to the fragile high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• In the second simple passage, the emo ranges from the sonorous low register to the raspy middle register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• In the coda, the emo stays in the raspy middle register. This passage typically has some sparse chords.

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