The Pear of Dawns

The Pear of Dawns is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Aye the Furs of Heather originating in The Jump of Bristling. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. Three singers recite any composition of The Natural Bud while the music is played on a nithara. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance should be spirited. The melody has mid-length phrases, while the counterpoint has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the aratha scale and in the fecaci rhythm.

• The Pear of Dawns has the following structure: three to five unrelated passages and a coda.
• Each of the simple passages is voiced by the melody of the singers. Each passage is consistently slowing, and it is to fade into silence. Each of the singers' voices ranges from the low register to the middle register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The coda is voiced by the melody of the nithara and the counterpoint of the singers. The passage is very slow, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. Each of the singers' voices covers its entire range. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The aratha heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 7th and the 8th.
• The fecaci rhythm is made from two patterns: the mathuva and the ele. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The mathuva rhythm is a single line with seven beats. The beats are named bulifo (spoken bu), ada (ad), mamo (ma), icithi (ic), arile (ar), opa (op) and eli (el). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x X - - x`|
• where X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The ele rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into six bars in a 7-6-3-6-5-5 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - X - x x - | - - x`x X - | x X`x | - - - x - - | - - x X x | - x X'- x |
• where X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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