The Sweetness of Glimmers

The Sweetness of Glimmers is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the elf Vafice Showeredwax. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A speaker recites The Reason of Glitter while the music is played on a ice. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance is fast, and it is to fade into silence. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the imeri scale and in the iye rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to modulate frequently.

• The speaker always should be fiery.
• The ice always does the main melody and should feel mysterious. The voice uses its entire range from the crisp low register to the dull high register.
• The Sweetness of Glimmers has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage should be composed and performed using grace notes.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The imeri hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a tritone and a perfect fourth. These chords are named warere and fena.
• The warere tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 4th and the 7th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The fena trichord is the 8th, the 9th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The iye rhythm is made from two patterns: the ele and the timafi. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The ele rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into six bars in a 7-6-3-6-5-5 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - X - x x - | - - x`x X - | x X`x | - - - x - - | - - x X x | - x X'- x |
• where X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The timafi rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named emu (spoken em), upe (up), amama (am) and thafatha (tha). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x`x - - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In late summer of 194, The Sweetness of Glimmers was created by the elf Vafice Showeredwax in Creaturebuds