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A form of music used for entertainment originating in The Grasping Oaks. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A chanter recites the words of a (name of poetic form here) while the music is played on a rofela. The entire performance slows and broadens. It is performed using the tarathe scale and in the bulifo rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use grace notes, alternate tension and repose and play arpeggios.
The chanter always does the main melody, should be passionate and is to be loud.
The rofela always does the main melody, should be melancholic and is to be soft.
The form has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a theme, a brief exposition of the theme and a brief recapitulation of the theme.
Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are cuthefi (spoken cu) and cede (ce).
The tarathe pentatonic scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named aratha and fathinu.
The aratha tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 9th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
The fathinu trichord is the 15th, the 19th and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
The bulifo rhythm is made from two patterns: the emu (considered the primary) and the otoga. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
The emu rhythm is a single line with twenty-seven beats divided into five bars in a 7-6-4-6-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
| - - x x - - x | - - x x - x | - - x - | - - - x x - | x x x x |
where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
The otoga rhythm is a single line with eighteen beats divided into two bars in a 11-7 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
| x - - x x x - - x - - | x - x - - - - |
where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.