The Mauve Berry

The Mauve Berry is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the elf Rifafa Owlcleared. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A speaker recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a amafi and two darala. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance should be spirited. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the imeri scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play rapid runs and alternate tension and repose.

• The amafi always does the main melody.
• Each darala always does the main melody.
• The Mauve Berry has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a theme, a lengthy exposition of the theme, a bridge-passage, a recapitulation of the theme, a bridge-passage and a finale.
• The theme is moderately paced, and it is to fade into silence. The amafi stays in the nasal low register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The exposition is at a free tempo, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. The amafi stays in the quavering high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The first bridge-passage is extremely fast, and it is to be soft. The amafi stays in the quavering high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The recapitulation is moderately fast, and it is to fade into silence. The amafi stays in the quavering high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The second bridge-passage is half the tempo of the last passage, and it is to be loud. The amafi stays in the nasal low register. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range.
• The finale is at a hurried pace, and it is to be very loud. The amafi covers its entire range from the nasal low register to the quavering high register. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range.
• 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 imeri pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ifife and fomire.
• The ifife trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The fomire trichord is the 1st, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

Events

• In early autumn of 259, The Mauve Berry was created by the elf Rifafa Owlcleared in Lacynoiseless after a nightmare