The Cerulean Lyrics
The Cerulean Lyrics is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the elf Iyathi Rocksbeached. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on three thimire. The entire performance is to be very soft. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the yaniye scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to alternate tension and repose.
- Each thimire always does the main melody and should feel mysterious.
- The Cerulean Lyrics has a well-defined multi-passage structure: three to five brief unrelated passages, a bridge-passage and a finale.
- Each of the simple passages slows and broadens. Each of the thimire ranges from the warm middle register to the muddy high register.
- The bridge-passage gradually slows as it comes to an end. Each of the thimire ranges from the wispy low register to the warm middle register.
- The finale is moderately fast. Each of the thimire ranges from the warm middle register to the muddy high register.
- Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are aratha (spoken ar) and imeri (im).
- As always, the yaniye hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named aro and thili.
- The aro trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The thili tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
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