Verse:Hmøøh/Pategia
Pategia (Windermere: Patiguș, Pategian: Paṭighuṣ, Roshterian: Qaanuuṯu) is a predominantly Windermere-speaking Bjeheondian country. It is located near Qaaroxṯer.
Geography
Its capital is Răthamrona (Raṭamrauna in the native Paḷkhan language).
Wildlife
Pategia has distinct wildlife though not as distinct as Cualuav.
Music
Inspiration: gayageum sanjo, Ancient Greek music?
The quintessential Pategian musical instruments are (some kind of lyre or fiddle?), and the Pategian drum (feam Pateguș in Windermere; ??? in Pategian).
Pategian music is highly multi-ethnic and uses elements from both native styles and Talman ones. Native Pategian music tends to be richly ornamented, and is based on a heptatonic scale.
Some ornaments include:
- grace notes
- rapid trills and turns
- slides
Pategia has its own offshoot of Windermere music as well. Some styles that fell out of use in Talma are still commonly performed in Pategia, such as the song with intoning voice (wălam yăthmear). Pategia is in fact home to the composer Dăraf Ko, a leading composer of yăthmear songs today, some of which incorporate native Pategian 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 Pategian. 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 Pategian, led by Schaus-Schaus Flein. More fully acoustic pieces are written in the last 25 years.
Pategian minimalism
Minimalist pieces from the Răthamrona school, ironically, have some of the most complex harmonic progressions in Trician music. One famous piece, ???, has over a hundred chord progressions, each modulating up by a microcomma.
Pategian postminimalism
Pategian musical compositions from the last three decades often revolve around polyrhythms.
Famous Pategian
Dăraf Ko - neoclassical composer of (Bjeheondian) Windermere descent
Minimalist composers?
A Brian Eno-like figure?
Schaus-Schaus Flein - postminimalist composer