The Ravine of Golden-Yellows

The Ravine of Golden-yellows is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Zin the Light-brown Fulfilment originating in The Worth Jobsheet. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites The Arcane Oats. The entire performance is to be moderately soft. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed using the vallal scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play legato and spread syllables over many notes.

• The singer always does the main melody. The voice uses its entire range.
• The Ravine of Golden-yellows has a simple structure: three to four unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages should be made expressively and slows and broadens.
• Scales are constructed from fifteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-xx-x-x-x-xxx-xx-x-xxO, 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 vallal heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th, the 9th, the 11th and the 14th.

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