The Blossom of Euphoria
The Blossom of Euphoria is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the elf Osime Pricedtresses. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A chanter recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a ece. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance accelerates as it proceeds. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed in the dinade rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use grace notes and make trills.
- The chanter always provides the rhythm and should be spirited.
- The ece always does the main melody and should be vigorous.
- The Blossom of Euphoria has the following structure: an introduction and a passage.
- The introduction is to become louder and louder. The chanter's voice covers its entire range. The passage is performed using the thili scale.
- The simple passage is to be soft. The chanter's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. The passage is performed using the ifife scale.
- Scales are constructed from seventeen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-xxxx-x-x-x-xxx-xxxx-xxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
- The thili heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 6th, the 7th, the 10th, the 11th and the 14th.
- The ifife pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 9th, the 12th and the 17th.
- The rhythm system is fundamentally polyrhythmic. There are always multiple rhythm lines, and each of their bars is played over the same period of time, regardless of the number of beats. The rhythm lines are thought of as one, without a primary-subordinate relationship, though individual lines can be named.
- The rhythm system is fundamentally polymetric. There are always multiple rhythm lines, and the beats are always played together, even if one rhythm line completes (and then repeats) before the other is finished. The rhythm lines are thought of as one, without a primary-subordinate relationship, though individual lines can be named.
- The dinade rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
- | x x |
- where x is a beat and | indicates a bar.
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