The Ripe Spelt-Grain

The Ripe Spelt-grain is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the dwarf Zith Scaledisease. 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 amu. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Pitches are densely packed in clusters as music moves from chord to chord. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the snas rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to locally improvise.

• The amu always does the main melody and should feel heroic. The voice ranges from the crisp low register to the fragile middle register.
• The Ripe Spelt-grain has a simple structure: a lengthy passage.
• The simple passage accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to be very loud. The passage should be composed and performed using legato.
• The snas rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | X x x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In early winter of 110, The Ripe Spelt-Grain was created by the dwarf Zith Scaledisease in Slatebarriers