The Velvety Euphoria

The Velvety Euphoria is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Admired Storms. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a darala and two aritha. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance should be broad, and it is to be moderately soft. The counterpoint melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the imeri scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use grace notes, use mordents, alternate tension and repose, play arpeggios and play staccato.

• The darala always does the main melody.
• Each aritha always does the counterpoint melody.
• The Velvety Euphoria has the following structure: one to two passages and an additional passage possibly all repeated.
• Each of the first simple passages is very slow. Each of the aritha stays in the wavering high register. Each passage has mid-length phrases in the melody. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range.
• The second simple passage is slow. Each of the aritha covers its entire range from the strained low register to the wavering high register. The passage has long phrases in the melody. This passage typically has some sparse chords.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are thuna (spoken thu, 1st), arazi (ar, 4th), fidale (fi, 7th) and tarathe (ta, 9th).
• As always, the imeri pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ifife and fomire.
• The ifife trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The fomire trichord is the 1st, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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