The Wonder of Glittering

The Wonder of Glittering is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Wild Seasons. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A chanter recites nonsensical words and sounds. The entire performance should feel mournful. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the cebela scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note, use grace notes and play rapid runs.

• The chanter always does the main melody, is to be moderately loud and modulates frequently.
• The Wonder of Glittering has the following structure: a lengthy chorus and a lengthy verse.
• The chorus accelerates as it proceeds. The chanter's voice stays in the high register.
• The verse is at a free tempo. The chanter's voice covers its entire range.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The cebela heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a tritone and a perfect fourth. These chords are named datha and aweme.
• The datha tetrachord is the 1st, the 8th, the 10th and the 13th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The aweme tetrachord is the 15th, the 16th, the 24th and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.

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