The Droplet of Poems
The Droplet of Poems is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the goblin Em Scrapedghouls. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a anga. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the odu scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to locally improvise and play staccato.
- The anga always does the main melody and should perform with skill. The voice stays in the vibrating low register.
- The Droplet of Poems has a simple structure: three to four unrelated passages.
- Each of the simple passages is moderately fast, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. Each passage should be composed and performed using legato. Each passage should often include a falling-rising melody pattern with flattened third degree on the rise as well as mordents, trills and rapid runs, always include a rising melody pattern with sharpened fifth degree and flattened sixth degree as well as mordents and trills, always include a falling melody pattern with glides and mordents and sometimes include a rising-falling melody pattern with flattened fourth degree on the rise as well as glides.
- Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
- As always, the odu hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named lasm and asmuk.
- The lasm tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The asmuk trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
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