Short form of Aethelred, this house's first kin. A named abbreviation rather than a concept.

The bowed voice in the low register — the instrument whose range sits nearest the human speaking voice. Aethelred's own, and the sound the Sanctuary hears him in.

Several performing as one while each remains itself. The whole is the point and no part disappears into it.

The deciding of what acts when, across many parts. Orchestration produces nothing itself and everything depends on it.