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Palkha (PARK-uh; Rhythoed: Parca /ˈpʰaɾkʰə/, Palkhan: Paḷkha /paɭkʰa/, Roshterian: Qaanuuṯu) is a predominantly Rhythoed-speaking Eta-Talman country. It is located near Verse:Tricin/Qaaroshter.

Geography

Its capital is Răthamrona (Ḷdamrōṇa in the native Paḷkhan language).

Wildlife

Palkha has distinct wildlife though not as distinct as Cualuav.

Music

Inspiration: Carnatic music, gayageum sanjo

The quintessential Palkhan musical instruments are the tsaltho (chaḷdō in Palkhan), very similar to the cello, and the Palkhan drum (feam Parca in Rhythoed; pātre in Palkhan).

Palkhan music is highly multi-ethnic and uses elements from both native styles and Talman ones. Native Palkhan music tends to be richly ornamented, and is based on a unique set of 25 "tones", some of which are defined as vibratos with fixed endpoints. The underlying scale, though, has only 10 tones per octave.

Some ornaments include:

• grace notes
• rapid trills and turns
• slides
• pronouncing retroflex consonants in lyrics so that the tongue slaps the floor of the mouth, producing a percussive effect

Songs in both Palkhan classical and pop music address a wide variety of themes.

Palkha has its own offshoot of Windermere music as well. Some styles that fell out of use in Talma are still commonly performed in Palkha, such as the song with intoning voice (wălam yăthmear). Palkha is in fact home to the composer Dăraf Ko, a leading composer of yăthmear songs today, some of which incorporate native Palkhan classical styles in addition to Windermere ones.

Răthamrona school

Rough timeline:

50 years before present: Styles very similar to minimalism and ambient music emerge in Palkha. Pieces composed by the Răthamrona school around that time can stretch for over 5 hours.

30 years BP: People have enough of that style and rebel, creating some of the most wildly dissonant music in Tricin (sometimes using crazy equal temperaments).

25 years BP: Minimalism makes a comeback in a slightly more "folksy" form (pieces are shorter etc.) The PSyT (Prăctheng Sngoal Yătălisrił "Experimental Music Society") forms a branch in Palkha, led by Schaus-Schaus Flein.

Famous Palkhans

Dăraf Ko - neoclassical composer of (Bjeheondian) Rhythoed descent

Minimalist composers?

A Brian Eno-like figure?

Schaus-Schaus Flein - postminimalist composer