The Heliotrope Poetry
The Heliotrope Poetry is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the elf Lolama Coastalreward. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A speaker recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a nithara and a thilama. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance should be made expressively. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed using the imeri scale and in free rhythm.
- The Heliotrope Poetry has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a verse and a chorus.
- The introduction is voiced by the melody of the nithara, the melody of the thilama and the speaker reciting nonsensical words and sounds. The passage is at a free tempo, and it is to be very loud. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
- The verse is voiced by the melody of the nithara, the rhythm of the thilama and the speaker reciting nonsensical words and sounds. The passage is extremely fast, and it is to become softer and softer. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage should be performed using locally improvisation. The passage should often include a rising-falling melody pattern with sharpened fourth degree on the rise and flattened third degree on the rise as well as trills, rapid runs and staccato, sometimes include a rising melody pattern with sharpened fifth degree as well as glides, grace notes, rapid runs and staccato, sometimes include a falling melody pattern with glides, grace notes, trills, staccato and legato and often include a falling-rising melody pattern with flattened fifth degree on the rise and sharpened sixth degree on the fall as well as staccato.
- The chorus is voiced by the melody of the thilama and the speaker reciting nonsensical words and sounds. The passage moves more quickly than the last passage, and it is to be very loud. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage should be performed using frequent modulation.
- 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.
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