The Sienna Lute of Cherishing

The Sienna Lute of Cherishing is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Kingdom of Faith. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on two luldan, a ime and a ini. The musical voices bring melody with harmony. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the agtha scale and in the iquob rhythm.

• The singer always does the main melody and should perform with feeling.
• Each luldan always does harmony and should evoke tears.
• The ime always does the main melody and should feel mysterious.
• The ini always does the main melody and should perform sweetly.
• The Sienna Lute of Cherishing has the following structure: a lengthy passage and a brief coda.
• The simple passage accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to be very soft. The singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range.
• The coda is at a walking pace, and it is to be moderately loud. The singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords.
• Scales are constructed from twenty notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. After a scale is constructed, notes are named according to degree. The names are dik (spoken di), tunem (tu), ramet (ra), icmon (ic), ozi (oz), stalcon (sta) and nek (ne).
• The agtha pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 8th, the 14th and the 18th.
• The iquob rhythm is made from two patterns: the apu (considered the primary) and the umo. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The apu rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named sluste (spoken slu) and itlud (it). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x |
• where x is a beat and | indicates a bar.
• The umo rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into eight bars in a 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 pattern. The beats are named rostfen (spoken ro) and hiner (hi). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | x - | - x | x`- | x x | x x | - x | x - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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