The Tablet of Forefingers

The Tablet of Forefingers is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Iwa originating in The Longing Country. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. One to two chanters recite nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a cillupug, a jeg and a evist. The musical voices cover melody, harmony and rhythm. The entire performance should be made expressively. It is performed without preference for a scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play staccato and play legato.

• The jeg always does the main melody.
• The Tablet of Forefingers has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and one to two passages and another one to two passages.
• The introduction is voiced by the melody of the chanters reciting nonsensical words and sounds, the melody of the jeg, the rhythm of the cillupug and the rhythm of the evist. The passage is extremely fast, and it is to be moderately loud. Each of the chanters' voices stays in the low register. The passage has long phrases in the melody. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• Each of the first simple passages is voiced by the melody of the jeg, the harmony of the chanters reciting nonsensical words and sounds and the rhythm of the cillupug. Each passage slows and broadens, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. Each of the chanters' voices stays in the high register. Each passage has mid-length phrases in the melody. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• Each of the second simple passages is voiced by the melody of the jeg and the harmony of the chanters reciting any composition of The Hemp Ilmenite. Each passage is moderately paced, and it is to be loud. Each of the chanters' voices covers its entire range. Each passage has short phrases in the melody. This passage typically has some sparse chords.

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