The Tressed Petals

The Tressed Petals is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Ultra-Thorns of Justifying. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites any composition of The River of Beaching while the music is played on a thimire. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is to be very loud. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use grace notes, syncopate and spread syllables over many notes.

• The singer always does the main melody. The voice stays in the low register.
• The thimire always provides the rhythm. The voice stays in the wispy low register.
• The Tressed Petals has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage should feel heroic and is very fast. The passage is performed using the fena scale. The passage should be performed using frequent modulation.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are aratha (spoken ar) and imeri (im).
• As always, the fena pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named aro and warere.
• The aro trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The warere trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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