The Adorable Gloss

The Adorable Gloss is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Jump of Bristling. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A speaker recites The Reason of Glitter while the music is played on a ice and a thilama. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance should be graceful. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use mordents, alternate tension and repose and play arpeggios.

• The speaker always is to become softer and softer.
• The ice always does the main melody and is to start loud then be immediately soft.
• The thilama always provides the rhythm and is to become softer and softer.
• The Adorable Gloss has the following structure: a chorus and a verse all repeated two times.
• The chorus is at a walking pace. The ice stays in the dull high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed using the arazi scale.
• The verse is very slow. The ice stays in the watery middle register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the thuna scale.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The arazi pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a tritone and a perfect fourth. These chords are named datha and fena.
• The datha trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 7th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The fena trichord is the 8th, the 9th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The thuna hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 5th, the 7th, the 9th and the 11th.

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