The Droplet of Desserts
The Droplet of Desserts is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the elf Elede Wavelabors. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. Three speakers recite nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a thilama. The musical voices are joined in melody. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use mordents, make trills and play legato.
- Each speaker always should perform sweetly.
- The thilama always does the main melody and should perform sweetly.
- The Droplet of Desserts has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a chorus and a verse all repeated two times and a finale.
- The chorus is at a free tempo, and it is to be moderately loud. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the adi scale.
- The verse is slower than the last passage, and it is to be moderately loud. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range. The passage is performed using the cebela scale.
- The finale is at a walking pace, and it is to be in whispered undertones. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage is performed using the aratha scale.
- Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
- The adi hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a tritone and a perfect fourth. These chords are named datha and thili.
- The datha trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 7th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
- The thili tetrachord is the 8th, the 10th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
- The cebela heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th and the 7th.
- The aratha heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 7th and the 8th.
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