The Beige Adoration

The Beige Adoration is a form of music used for entertainment 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. The music is played on a thilama and a nithara. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is at a hurried pace. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to syncopate and alternate tension and repose.

• The thilama always does the main melody, should perform with feeling, is to start loud then be immediately soft and plays arpeggios.
• The nithara always provides the rhythm, should be melancholic and is to start loud then be immediately soft.
• The Beige Adoration has the following structure: a passage and another one to two passages possibly all repeated.
• The first simple passage is performed using the datome scale.
• Each of the second simple passages 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 datome 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 6th and the 8th.
• 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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