The Sienna Rhymes

The Sienna Rhymes is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the elf Famime Splashwave. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a thilama and a nithara. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance is to become louder and louder. The melody has short phrases, while the counterpoint has phrases of varied length throughout the form. It is performed using the cebela scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use grace notes.

• The thilama always does the main melody and should bring a sense of motion.
• The nithara always does the counterpoint melody and should perform sweetly.
• The Sienna Rhymes has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a theme and one to two series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The introduction is moderately fast. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range. The passage is performed in the emudi rhythm.
• The theme is moderately paced. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed in the bareca rhythm.
• Each of the series of variations is twice the tempo of the last passage. This passage typically has some sparse chords. Each passage is performed in the thiwa rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The cebela heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th and the 7th.
• The emudi rhythm is made from two patterns: the fidale and the cida. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The fidale rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named tarathe (spoken ta) and cuthefi (cu). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The cida rhythm is a single line with seven beats. The beats are named lolama (spoken lo), itho (ith), lebeyu (le), efeye (ef), abure (ab), camaba (ca) and afatha (af). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - X x - - - |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The bareca rhythm is made from two patterns: the mathuva and the fidale. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The mathuva rhythm is a single line with seven beats. The beats are named bulifo (spoken bu), ada (ad), mamo (ma), icithi (ic), arile (ar), opa (op) and eli (el). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x X - - x`|
• where X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The thiwa rhythm is made from three patterns: the timafi, the etini and the mafina. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The timafi rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named emu (spoken em), upe (up), amama (am) and thafatha (tha). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x`x - - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The etini rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named ile (spoken il), atha (ath), alo (al) and aveya (av). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The mafina rhythm is a single line with seven beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x X x`- - |
• where X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In early autumn of 250, The Sienna Rhymes was created by the elf Famime Splashwave in Fedlobster