The Beloved Embraces
The Beloved Embraces is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the elf Futace Savioreagle. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on two xor. The entire performance should be passionate. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the slusna scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note.
- Each xor always does the main melody and is to become louder and louder.
- The Beloved Embraces has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a lengthy introduction and a lengthy verse and a chorus.
- The introduction is at a free tempo. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
- The verse is at a walking pace. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
- The chorus is at a hurried pace. 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 fixed only at the time of performance.
- As always, the slusna pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ogo and ngub.
- The ogo trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The ngub trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
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