The Cavernous Snowy-Owl-Person

The Cavernous Snowy-owl-person is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Ehigibsal originally devised by the halfling Gof Camaraderiesized. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. One to five chanters recite nonsensical words and sounds. The entire performance should be melancholic. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the ohural scale. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to modulate frequently.

• Each chanter always does the main melody, is to become softer and softer and plays legato.
• The Cavernous Snowy-owl-person has the following structure: a verse and a chorus all repeated two times.
• The verse is very fast. Each of the chanters' voices stays in the low register. The passage is performed in free rhythm.
• The chorus is very slow. Each of the chanters' voices covers its entire range. The passage is performed in the pethrebinpu rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-one notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xxxx-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The ohural heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 6th, the 9th, the 12th, the 16th and the 19th.
• The pethrebinpu rhythm is made from three patterns: the ithut (considered the primary), the xathrato and the othdo. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The ithut rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beats are named iquur (spoken iq), ibalarek (ib) and uwakri (uw). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The xathrato rhythm is a single line with eight beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - x x - - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The othdo rhythm is a single line with twenty-five beats divided into three bars in a 5-9-11 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x x - | - x - x - - - - - | x x - x x x x x x x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In late winter of 95, The Cavernous Snowy-Owl-Person was created by the halfling Gof Camaraderiesized in Alchemicaldeepened the Inverse Cave in order to glorify her deity Ehigibsal after praying to Ehigibsal