The Mode of Thrones

The Mode of Thrones is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of The Encasement of Proclaiming originating in The Mores of Exhorting. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites any composition of The Climactic No. The entire performance slows down and dies away as it draws to a close. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the shudash scale and in the vuthrilsim rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play arpeggios and play legato.

• The singer always does the main melody, should feel mournful and plays rapid runs.
• The Mode of Thrones has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a theme, an exposition of the theme, a bridge-passage and a recapitulation of the theme.
• In the theme, the singer's voice stays in the low register. The passage should be performed using mordents.
• In the exposition, the singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• In the bridge-passage, the singer's voice stays in the middle register.
• In the recapitulation, the singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• Scales are constructed from fifteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-xx-x-x-x-xx-xxx-xx-xO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The shudash pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 6th, the 12th and the 14th.
• The vuthrilsim rhythm is a single line with seventeen beats divided into four bars in a 5-3-5-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - - x | x - x | x x - x x | - x x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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