The Aquamarine of Venerating

The Aquamarine of Venerating is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the elf Lali Snarlingplays. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A speaker recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a balane, a niceyi and a irami. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance is slow, and it is to be soft. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. The music is broadly layered with chords spanning the range. It is performed using the imeri scale and in the atha rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to locally improvise.

• The balane always does the main melody. The strident voice uses its entire range.
• The niceyi always does the main melody. The voice ranges from the muddy low register to the rippling high register.
• The irami always does the main melody.
• The Aquamarine of Venerating has a simple structure: three to four unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages should bring a sense of motion. Each passage should sometimes include a falling melody pattern with flattened third degree as well as rapid runs, arpeggios and legato and often include a rising melody pattern with sharpened seventh degree, flattened sixth degree and sharpened fourth degree as well as legato.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The imeri heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named adi and fomire.
• The adi tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd and the 6th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The fomire tetrachord is the 8th, the 10th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The atha rhythm is made from two patterns: the otoga and the cede. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The otoga rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beats are named dinade (spoken di), cenopu (ce) and ele (el). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The cede 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 |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In early summer of 181, The Aquamarine of Venerating was created by the elf Lali Snarlingplays in Oaktongue