The Flutes of Incense

The Flutes of Incense is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the elf Vaci Hawkpregnant. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Two singers recite any composition of The Quiescence of Pondering. The entire performance should be broad and is at a walking pace. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the cebela scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play arpeggios.

• Each singer always does the main melody and glides from note to note. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The Flutes of Incense has a simple structure: three unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is to become louder and louder. Each passage is performed in the nanotha rhythm.
• 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 cebela heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named aro and fathinu.
• The aro tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The fathinu tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The nanotha rhythm is made from two patterns: the upe and the etini. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The upe rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named amama (spoken am) and thafatha (tha). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• 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.

Events

• In early winter of 245, The Flutes of Incense was created by the elf Vaci Hawkpregnant in Cloudysmile