The Tress of Songs
The Tress of Songs is a devotional form of music originally devised by the elf Camela Glowingskies. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on two thimire and a corowa. The musical voices bring melody with harmony. The entire performance is to become softer and softer. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note, play rapid runs, alternate tension and repose, play arpeggios and play staccato.
- The singer always does harmony and should perform with feeling.
- Each thimire always does the main melody and should be melancholic.
- The corowa always does the main melody and should perform expressively.
- The Tress of Songs has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a chorus and a verse all repeated one to two times and a finale.
- The chorus is at a hurried pace. Each of the thimire stays in the muddy high register, the corowa ranges from the raspy low register to the muddy middle register and the singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
- The verse is slower than the last passage. Each of the thimire stays in the wispy low register, the corowa ranges from the raspy low register to the muddy middle register and the singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
- The finale is at a walking pace. Each of the thimire ranges from the wispy low register to the warm middle register, the corowa covers its entire range from the raspy low register to the rippling high register and the singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
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