Lyros-Enheym

Description

Lyros-Enheym is an unfinished song that was being developed by the Devious One between March and July 2025.

It consists of 65 bars – 16 four-bar phrases, plus a final chord – mostly set in the key of F♯ major. The middle section, however, is written in G♯ minor, and approaches G major before the climax of the song.

Development

The earliest known prototype of Enheym was written in early March 2025, based around a descending chromatic bassline (because why not?).

Although only a piano can be heard in this clip audio:../assets/lyros-enheym-prototype.mp3, it was designed to be sung from the start. The melody was written to fit iambic heptameter ↗ due to the poem Leiation, which contained the original lyrics to the song. However, it was eventually realised that a truer Bridgian setting would be required: hence, the Bridgian-language lyrics below.

The Devious One decided, in a rare instance of common sense, that the chromatic bassline was not as good as it sounded. The initial phrase was rewritten in 3/4 time (with a few notes omitted from the melody), with a chord sequence of F♯ | C♯ | A♯m7 | B(add2) rather than F♯ | C♯/E♯ | C♯m/E | D♯7.

In fact, the first section is kept entirely within the key of F♯ major, to paint a clear scene before the “action” unfolds in the second section. The second section opens with a chromatic descending bassline, using the original chord-sequence for the start of the song (with the slight modification that C♯/E♯ became A♯m/E♯).

Harmonic analysis

First section

F♯ | C♯ | A♯m7 | B(add2) F♯ | A♯m7 | B(add2) | C♯ F♯ | C♯ | A♯m7 | B(add2) G♯m7 | F♯/A♯ | B | C♯7

I | V | iii7 | IV(add2) I | iii7 | IV(add2) | V I | V | iii7 | IV(add2) ii7 | Ib | IV | V7

The section begins with an alternation between plagal and perfect cadences,

F♯ | A♯m/E♯ | C#m/E | D♯7 G♯m | D#m/F♯ | E, C#m6/E | C#m6/D#, D#7 G#m | E | C#m6 | D# G#m | C#m7 | C#m7/A# (A#ø7(♭9)) | D#7

VII | iic | ivb | V7 (or I | iiic | vb | VI7) i | vb | VI, iv6b | V7(♭9, sus4), V7 i | VI | iv6 | V i | iv7 | iiø7(♭9) | V7

Lyrics

Only a handful of Bridgian lines were ever written.

1. Ge veyınvɐ Bycbeys ⹁dhanɐ ve denha dþen undhay; Þen ac ɐmɔɐ ⹁la ce yɐmcɐ: veyþel eɔros nɐghay. [unwritten] [unwritten]

2. Þey syn ⹁ce gıl, dhaca onheym; þım aɔral anghey. Þey ny be þım ⹁bhe ghy enheym; bey bhel onvısþel-þey. [unwritten] [unwritten]

(3. and 4. unwritten)