The Lilac Tomato

The Lilac Tomato is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the dwarf Ivucator Floatoars. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites any composition of The Dates of Understanding. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the kekorith scale and in the ong rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note, play legato and freely adjust the beats.

• The singer always does the main melody and should be melancholic. The voice uses its entire range.
• The Lilac Tomato has the following structure: a verse and a chorus all repeated two times.
• The verse accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to fade into silence.
• The chorus is moderately paced, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The passage should be composed and performed using staccato.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-three notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxO, 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 kekorith heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 6th, the 11th, the 13th, the 17th and the 19th.
• The ong rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named febamus (spoken fe), tinos (ti), afonan (af) and stat (sta). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In late autumn of 69, The Lilac Tomato was created by the dwarf Ivucator Floatoars in Grinnedadulteries