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The Song Sheets

From Màranven — The Tongue and the Door, Book Three of the Black Index. Free to download, print, and sing on.

In Montavera, a song is not finished when it is sung. It is finished when it is filed. Màranven is the book of Sèlanar, the sung language of the city — a language in which the pitch a word is sung on is part of what the word means, and in which a filing, a promise, and a melody are filed on the same form.

That form is the song sheet: the unicorns’ own stationery, issued by the Bureau and printed blank in the back of the book, ruled and ready. If you arrived here by the code on the book’s instruction page, you are in the right office. Both sheets below are the sheets exactly as they stand in the book — the original in Sèlanar, and the same sheet in Common.

How to file a song

  1. Fill in the head of the sheet. Write the song as it was sung. Then name who sang it, who files it, the date of filing, and who witnessed the singing.
  2. Mark the melody. One square note for every syllable, set on the line that syllable is sung on — top line high, middle mid, bottom low. Write each word beneath its notes, if you like.
  3. Choose the medium, knowingly. The medium is not a supply choice; it is a legal one. Carved is low and binding. Ink is mid and revisable. Charcoal is high, and a draft.

Then write what the song is filed under, countersign it, and set the seal in the circle left for it at the foot of the sheet. A song unsealed is still being sung.

The sheet in Sèlanar (PDF)The original, as the unicorns issue it — print-ready The sheet in Common (PDF)The same sheet in English — print-ready

Each sheet is a single page, sized exactly as in the book. Print it, copy it as often as a table requires — copies may be made freely, and the city keeps the carbon.

The blank song sheet in Sèlanar — headed Selnos, with fields for the song, its singer, its clerk, its date and its witness, seven ruled systems marked mi, do, la, and a seal circle at the foot
Selnos — the blank sheet in Sèlanar
The blank song sheet in English — headed Song Sheet, Stationery of the Unicorns, with fields for the song as sung, who sang it, who files it, the date and a witness, seven ruled systems marked H, M, L, and a seal circle at the foot
Song Sheet — the blank sheet in Common

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