The Saffron Song

The Saffron Song is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Disloyalty of Crypts. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Two speakers recite nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a osmlo. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance should feel playful and is fast. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the urdu rhythm.

• The osmlo always does the main melody. The dark voice uses its entire range.
• The Saffron Song has the following structure: a lengthy passage and another one to two passages.
• The first simple passage is to become louder and louder.
• Each of the second simple passages is to become louder and louder.
• The rhythm system is fundamentally polymetric. There are always multiple rhythm lines, and the beats are always played together, even if one rhythm line completes (and then repeats) before the other is finished. The rhythm lines are thought of as one, without a primary-subordinate relationship, though individual lines can be named.
• The urdu rhythm is made from two patterns: the odu and the sasne. As stated above, they are to be played in polymeter.
• The odu rhythm is a single line with seven beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x - x x x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The sasne rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into six bars in a 6-5-8-6-2-5 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 |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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