The Lilac of Song

The Lilac of Song 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. The music is played on a luldan. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the othag scale and in the agthreb rhythm.

• The luldan always does the main melody and should bring a sense of motion.
• The Lilac of Song has the following structure: a lengthy passage and an additional lengthy passage.
• The first simple passage is extremely fast, and it is to be moderately loud.
• The second simple passage is consistently slowing, and it is to become louder and louder.
• 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 othag pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 6th, the 9th, the 12th and the 18th.
• The agthreb rhythm is a single line with nine beats divided into three bars in a 3-3-3 pattern. The beats are named kaslal (spoken ka), seggu (se) and tikbo (ti). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x - | x - x | - x x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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