The Lyrical Rambutan

The Lyrical Rambutan is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the mer Luya Realgarangler. 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 riraya and one to five isarilu. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is moderately paced, and it is to fade into silence. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the everinopefa scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note.

• The riraya always does the main melody, should be jumpy and plays arpeggios.
• Each isarilu always provides the rhythm and should be joyful.
• The Lyrical Rambutan has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a brief theme, a lengthy exposition of the theme, a recapitulation of the theme and a finale.
• In the theme, each of the isarilu ranges from the sonorous low register to the strained middle register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• In the exposition, each of the isarilu stays in the sonorous low register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• In the recapitulation, each of the isarilu stays in the sonorous low register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• In the finale, each of the isarilu ranges from the sonorous low register to the strained middle register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The everinopefa heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named iwarivuli and ifiyo.
• The iwarivuli tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th and the 6th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The ifiyo tetrachord is the 8th, the 10th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.

Events

• In midspring of 112, The Lyrical Rambutan was created by the mer Luya Realgarangler in Chocolatedecelerates