The Chant of Desserts

The Chant of Desserts is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the elf Eletha Glimmerblockades. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Two singers recite nonsensical words and sounds. The entire performance is fast. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the aweme scale and in the oma rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use grace notes, play rapid runs and alternate tension and repose.

• Each singer always does the main melody and should be vigorous.
• The Chant of Desserts has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a chorus and a verse possibly all repeated.
• The introduction is to be moderately soft. Each of the singers' voices ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The chorus is to be very loud. Each of the singers' voices ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The verse is to be very soft. Each of the singers' voices covers its entire range.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are thuna (spoken thu, 1st), arazi (ar, 4th), fidale (fi, 7th) and tarathe (ta, 9th).
• As always, the aweme hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ifife and fathinu.
• The ifife trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The fathinu tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The oma rhythm is made from three patterns: the etini (considered the primary), the icithi and the mathuva. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The etini rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into two bars in a 4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - x | - x x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The icithi rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x | - x | x - | x x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The mathuva rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beats are named bulifo (spoken bu), ada (ad) and mamo (ma). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | X x x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In late summer of 172, The Chant of Desserts was created by the elf Eletha Glimmerblockades in Sheenchanneled