The Glitter of Saffron

The Glitter of Saffron is a devotional form of music originating in The Pink Seduction. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on three emo. The entire performance is moderately fast. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. It is performed using the abo scale and in the nol rhythm.

• Each emo always does the main melody and plays staccato.
• The Glitter of Saffron has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a verse and a chorus all repeated two times.
• The introduction should be made with skill, and it is to be soft. Each of the emo ranges from the raspy middle register to the fragile high register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• The verse should evoke tears, and it is to become softer and softer. Each of the emo covers its entire range from the sonorous low register to the fragile high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The chorus should be joyful, and it is to be moderately loud. Each of the emo ranges from the raspy middle register to the fragile high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• Scales are constructed from twenty notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xx-xxxxx-xx-xxx-xxxxxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are usnusp (spoken us) and ngub (ngu).
• The abo heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 6th, the 8th, the 9th, the 13th, the 16th and the 20th.
• The rhythm system is fundamentally polyrhythmic. There are always multiple rhythm lines, and each of their bars is played over the same period of time, regardless of the number of beats. The rhythm lines are thought of as one, without a primary-subordinate relationship, though individual lines can be named.
• The nol rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into eight bars in a 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | - x | - x | - x | x - | x x | - x | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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