The Adoration of Song

The Adoration of Song is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Pink Realms. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. One to two chanters recite nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on three ospram. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is consistently slowing, and it is to become softer and softer. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the use scale and in the zomuth rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to locally improvise.

• Each chanter always provides the rhythm. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• Each ospram always does the main melody. The voice stays in the crisp high register.
• The Adoration of Song has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage should be made with a light touch. The passage should always include a falling-rising melody pattern with flattened third degree on the rise as well as arpeggios and sometimes include a rising-falling melody pattern with sharpened fourth degree on the fall as well as grace notes, mordents, trills, arpeggios and legato.
• Scales are constructed from thirteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-x-x-x-x--xx-x-xx-x-xO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are dik (spoken di, 5th), tunem (tu, 7th), ramet (ra, 8th), icmon (ic, 9th) and ozi (oz, 11th).
• The use pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 9th, the 11th and the 13th.
• The zomuth rhythm is a single line with four beats divided into two bars in a 2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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