The Suitor of Chants

The Suitor of Chants is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Persuasive Sin. 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 Prophecy of Blossoming. The entire performance is moderately fast. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note, use mordents and play staccato.

• The chanter always does the main melody and should feel mysterious.
• The Suitor of Chants has the following structure: a lengthy passage and a finale.
• The simple passage is to be very loud. The chanter's voice covers its entire range. The passage is performed using the urdu scale and in free rhythm.
• The finale is to become louder and louder. The chanter's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. The passage is performed without preference for a scale and in the gosma rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The urdu hexatonic scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named ekxox and ok.
• The ekxox pentachord is the 1st, the 5th, the 8th, the 9th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The ok trichord is the 15th, the 19th and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The gosma rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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