The Meandering Intricacy

The Meandering Intricacy is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the elf Sareve Budpear. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a thilama and a nithara. The musical voices are joined in melody. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the yaniye scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use grace notes, alternate tension and repose and play legato.

• The thilama always does the main melody, should perform with feeling and uses mordents.
• The nithara always does the main melody, should perform with feeling, uses mordents and locally improvises.
• The Meandering Intricacy has the following structure: an introduction and a passage.
• The introduction is very slow, and it is to become louder and louder. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The simple passage is very fast, and it is to be moderately loud. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The yaniye hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a tritone and a perfect fourth. These chords are named aro and fena.
• The aro tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th 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.

Events

• In late autumn of 272, The Meandering Intricacy was created by the elf Sareve Budpear in Blossomedcreeds