[Performance Rules] [Bracketed text is instruction only. Sing only the written syllables.] [Instrument-led battle, 190 BPM: urgent, breathless, fleeting tragic beauty.] [Foreground violin, viola and cello pizzicato: rounded finger-plucked attacks, ultra-fast repeated notes, short minor-key motifs.] [Three spatially distinct hammered dulcimers add brief bright rolls and sharp accents between string phrases.] [Low bowed strings add short rhythmic strokes; high bowed strings sustain aching tones only at peaks. No continuous string wash.] [Female voices imitate and continue the exact rhythm of pizzicato and mallet figures. Held vowels inherit bowed-string tones.] [Clear high female voices, never raspy, stay secondary at rear-left, rear-right and high behind, with independent near/far counter-orbits.] [Keep motifs simple and attacks distinct. Rounded string attacks, relentless urgency.] [Silence means every instrument and voice stops. No pads or drones.] [Intro – Exposed Tension] [One cello pizzicato note. Violin answers with two plucked notes.] [A distant dulcimer strike. Short tense gaps, no percussion.] [A tiny fast pizzicato figure passes directly to a distant female voice.] Ri... [One thin high bowed violin tone rises, then cuts off.] [Ignition – Full Speed] [Violins launch a rapid three-note pizzicato motif.] [Violas pursue; cello adds clipped low accents.] [Dulcimers answer phrase endings with short mallet rolls.] [Acoustic bass pulses and dry frame drum enter suddenly.] [The voice inherits the final instrumental rhythm.] Di-rara-rira Ah.... [Short instrumental gap.] Ri! Ri! [Pursuit – Strings and Mallets] [Ultra-fast pizzicato passes between violin, viola and cello.] [Dulcimer rolls flash through the gaps. Lines collide, separate and unite.] [Rear-left and rear-right voices continue successive instrumental phrases, moving independently through near and far space.] Di-rara-rira Di-rara-rira Ra! Ri! [One high bowed violin holds an urgent aching tone; the voice continues it as the violin releases.] Wo... [First Clash – Unison] [Pizzicato strings strike the motif in fierce unison.] [Dulcimers reinforce strong accents; short low bowed strokes add weight.] [Frame drum, dry toms and clipped bass support the pulse.] [Brief synchronized stops between bursts.] [Female syllables match the final instrumental accents.] Ri! Ra! Ri-rara-rira Ah... [All performers cut off together.] [Drop – Suspended Silence] [Let resonance die, then one full bar of complete silence.] [No voices, strings, bass, percussion or background sound.] [Exposed Passage – Countdown] [Isolated cello pizzicato notes like a tense countdown.] [Wide gaps. One distant dulcimer note answers.] [An exposed bowed violin phrase rises, trembles and breaks off.] [A distant female voice inherits its final tone.] Wo... [Silence, then a sudden tiny dulcimer roll.] Ri-rara-rira [Rebuild – Tightening Pursuit] [The original pizzicato motif returns at full speed, very quietly.] [Viola and cello join in close canon.] [Three separated dulcimers trade brief rolls.] [Increase attack strength, not tempo. Bass and frame drum return.] [Voices imitate plucked figures and mallet rolls.] [Shorten the gaps into one continuous surge.] Ri-rara-rira Ri-rara-rira Ri! Ra! [A high bowed violin rises above the surge and hands its tone to the voice.] Wo! [Final Battle – Blazing Interlock] [Rapid violin and viola pizzicato drives the motif.] [Cello alternates low plucks with brief forceful bowed strokes.] [Three dulcimers exchange blazing rolls between string phrases.] [Keep every line distinct. High bowed strings add brief aching swells.] [Frame drum and toms drive forward without masking the plucks.] [Female voices continue the instrumental rhythms precisely.] [Brief counter-rotating vocal layers intensify the motion.] Di-rara-rira Di-rara-rira Ri! Ri! Ra! Wo! [Final Unison – Last Surge] [Plucked strings and dulcimers strike the main motif in fierce unison.] [Maximum urgency, clear gaps between bursts.] [High bowed strings sustain one tragic rising tone.] [Voices inherit the rhythm, then the sustained string tone.] Di-rara-rira Ah... [One final instrumental burst.] [All strings, dulcimers, bass, drums and voices stop together.] [Outro – Complete Silence] [An empty pause. No returning strings or voices.] [One lone dulcimer strikes a single soft note.] [No answering phrase or accompaniment.] [Let its natural resonance decay completely.] [End with several seconds of absolute silence.]
