The Pendant-Amaranth-Grain of Saltwater-Crocodile-People

The Pendant-amaranth-grain of Saltwater-crocodile-people is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Agas Cherry-opalnavel originating in The Judgemental Confederation. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a urpuxiltam. The entire performance should be spirited, and it is to be very loud. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the furithali scale and in the gad rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play arpeggios.

• The urpuxiltam always does the main melody.
• The Pendant-amaranth-grain of Saltwater-crocodile-people has the following structure: a lengthy passage and another one to two passages possibly all repeated.
• The first simple passage gradually slows as it comes to an end. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage should be composed and performed using staccato.
• Each of the second simple passages is at a walking pace. 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 vuthrilsim (spoken vu, 2nd), desle (de, 4th) and pethrebinpu (pe, 11th).
• As always, the furithali hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ohural and othdo.
• The ohural tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 6th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The othdo trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The gad rhythm is made from two patterns: the emsor (considered the primary) and the bushcirne. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The emsor rhythm is a single line with twelve beats divided into two bars in a 6-6 pattern. The beats are named naccak (spoken na), vishages (vi), kungujith (ku), udal (ud), xur (xu) and ibbekur (ib). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - - x - | - - x x x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The bushcirne rhythm is a single line with twenty-three beats divided into two bars in a 7-16 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x`x - x x x'x | - x - x - x - - x x - - - x - - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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