The Lyrical Lime

The Lyrical Lime is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Irrefutable Wills. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A speaker recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on one to five pipot and a diti. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. It is performed using the toipe scale and in the paciyq rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to locally improvise and add fills.

• The speaker always should be passionate.
• Each pipot always provides the rhythm and should stress the rhythm.
• The diti always does the main melody and should be passionate.
• The Lyrical Lime has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a brief introduction, three to five unrelated passages and a finale.
• The introduction is very fast, and it is to be moderately soft. The diti covers its entire range from the raucous low register to the strident high register. The passage has short phrases in the melody. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage should often include a falling-rising melody pattern with staccato, often include a falling melody pattern with glides, grace notes and staccato and sometimes include a rising melody pattern with sharpened second degree as well as grace notes, trills, rapid runs and arpeggios.
• Each of the simple passages is very fast, and it is to be loud. The diti stays in the strident high register. Each passage has phrases of varied length in the melody. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. Each passage should often include a rising melody pattern with sharpened seventh degree.
• The finale is slow, and it is to be moderately soft. The diti covers its entire range from the raucous low register to the strident high register. The passage has mid-length phrases in the melody. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage should sometimes include a falling melody pattern with flattened seventh degree as well as glides, rapid runs and legato.
• 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.
• As always, the toipe heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named kiteq and uok.
• The kiteq tetrachord is the 1st, the 7th, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The uok tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The paciyq rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x |
• where x is a beat and | indicates a bar.

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