The Satiny Tone

The Satiny Tone is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the elf Amane Flaxenmartyred. 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 thimire and a corowa. The musical voices bring melody with harmony. The entire performance should be merry. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the fomire scale and in the dinade rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play rapid runs.

• The thimire always does harmony.
• The corowa always does the main melody and uses mordents.
• The Satiny Tone has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a lengthy theme, an exposition of the theme and a brief recapitulation of the theme.
• The theme is moderately fast, and it is to be moderately loud. The corowa covers its entire range from the raspy low register to the rippling high register and the thimire covers its entire range from the wispy low register to the muddy high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The exposition is moderately fast, and it is to be loud. The corowa ranges from the muddy middle register to the rippling high register and the thimire ranges from the wispy low register to the warm middle register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• The recapitulation is extremely fast, and it is to fade into silence. The corowa ranges from the raspy low register to the muddy middle register and the thimire ranges from the wispy low register to the warm middle register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• 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 fomire heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ifife and datha.
• The ifife tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 6th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The datha tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The dinade rhythm is a single line with four beats divided into two bars in a 2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In late autumn of 258, The Satiny Tone was created by the elf Amane Flaxenmartyred in Marketblossoms