The Butterfly of Roses
The Butterfly of Roses is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Romimi Larkearthen originally devised by the elf Imere Conjureglitters. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A chanter recites nonsensical words and sounds. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the aweme scale.
- The chanter always does the main melody.
- The Butterfly of Roses has the following structure: a lengthy introduction and a lengthy passage.
- The introduction should be merry and is moderately paced, and it is to be moderately loud. The chanter's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. The passage has long phrases in the melody. The passage is performed in free rhythm. The passage should be performed using rapid runs.
- The simple passage should be delicate and accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to be very loud. The chanter's voice stays in the middle register. The passage has mid-length phrases in the melody. The passage is performed in the etini rhythm.
- 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 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.
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