The Queen of Amethyst

The Queen of Amethyst is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Confederacies of Habit. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A chanter recites any composition of The Song of Glossing. The entire performance is to be in whispered undertones. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to alternate tension and repose.

• The chanter always does the main melody and should perform sweetly.
• The Queen of Amethyst has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a verse and a lengthy chorus all repeated two times and a brief coda.
• The verse is fast. The chanter's voice stays in the middle register. The passage is performed using the nithros scale.
• The chorus is slow. The chanter's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. The passage is performed using the ozi scale.
• The coda is very fast. The chanter's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. The passage is performed without preference for a scale.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven 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 lastta (spoken la) and cish (ci).
• As always, the nithros pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named agtha and woge.
• The agtha trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The woge trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• As always, the ozi pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named thad and dik.
• The thad trichord is the 1st, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The dik trichord is the 1st, the 6th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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