The Tenebrous Lyric

The Tenebrous Lyric is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the human Lapip Clawdips. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A speaker recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a mos and a adoth. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance should be made sweetly, and it is to fade into silence. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the nek scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to add fills, alternate tension and repose and play arpeggios.

• The mos always provides the rhythm.
• The adoth always does the main melody.
• The Tenebrous Lyric has the following structure: a lengthy theme and a series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The theme is slow. The adoth covers its entire range from the slicing low register to the floating high register.
• The series of variations is extremely fast. The adoth stays in the floating high register.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. 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 ani (spoken an) and shato (sha).
• The nek pentatonic scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named rom and dik.
• The rom trichord is the 1st, the 10th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The dik tetrachord is the 15th, the 19th, the 23rd and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.

Events

• In midwinter of 187, The Tenebrous Lyric was created by the human Lapip Clawdips in Visedgripped