The Aquamarine Droplets of Silk

The Aquamarine Droplets of Silk is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Ultra-Thorns of Justifying. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites The Queen of Luxury while the music is played on a thimire. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance should be bright and is moderately fast. The melody has short phrases, while the counterpoint has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed in the otoga rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes, use mordents, alternate tension and repose and play legato.

• The singer always does the main melody. The voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The thimire always does the counterpoint melody. The voice uses its entire range from the wispy low register to the muddy high register.
• The Aquamarine Droplets of Silk has a simple structure: three unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is to be moderately loud. Each passage is performed using the fena scale.
• 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.
• The otoga rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into six bars in a 4-6-6-6-7-3 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x`x x`x | x - x x - - | x x x - x x | - - x - x x | x x'x'- - x x | - x x |
• where ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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