The Beloved Verses
The Beloved Verses is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the elf Mame Sunclose. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A speaker recites any composition of The Twilight of Rock while the music is played on two mevena. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance should bring a sense of motion and is slow, and it is to become louder and louder. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the imeri scale and in the etini rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note and alternate tension and repose.
- Each mevena always does the main melody.
- The Beloved Verses has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a lengthy introduction and a verse and a chorus all repeated one times.
- In the introduction, each of the mevena covers its entire range from the strident low register to the nasal high register.
- In the verse, each of the mevena stays in the strident low register.
- In the chorus, each of the mevena covers its entire range from the strident low register to the nasal high register.
- Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are thuna (spoken thu, 1st), arazi (ar, 4th), fidale (fi, 7th) and tarathe (ta, 9th).
- As always, the imeri pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ifife and fomire.
- The ifife trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The fomire trichord is the 1st, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The etini rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into two bars in a 4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
- | - - - x | - x x - |
- where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
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