The Gloss of Festivals
The Gloss of Festivals is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the elf Imaza Wavetempts. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a thimire and a corowa. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance should be lively and is at a hurried pace. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the fena scale and in the fidale rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use grace notes, play rapid runs and play legato.
- The thimire always does the main melody and is to be very loud.
- The corowa always provides the rhythm, is to be in whispered undertones and adds fills.
- The Gloss of Festivals has the following structure: a chorus and a lengthy verse all repeated up to two times.
- In the chorus, the thimire ranges from the wispy low register to the warm middle register and the corowa stays in the raspy low register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
- In the verse, the thimire stays in the muddy high register and the corowa stays in the rippling high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords.
- Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. 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 aratha (spoken ar) and imeri (im).
- As always, the fena pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named aro and warere.
- The aro trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The warere trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The fidale rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beats are named tarathe (spoken ta), cuthefi (cu) and cede (ce). The beat is stressed as follows:
- | x - x |
- where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
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