The Poetry of Verse

The Poetry of Verse is a devotional form of music originating in The Disloyalty of Blushing. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a ugu. The entire performance is extremely fast, and it is to become louder and louder. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in the ospo rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes.

The ugu always does the main melody.
The Poetry of Verse has a simple structure: three to four brief unrelated passages.
Each of the simple passages should feel playful. Each passage is performed using the odu scale.
Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
The odu hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a perfect fifth and a major third. These chords are named usnusp and ozse.
The usnusp tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
The ozse trichord is the 9th, the 10th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
The ospo rhythm is made from two patterns: the nolsmu (considered the primary) and the ustrok. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
The nolsmu rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into two bars in a 8-8 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
| x x !'x x x'x x | x x X x - x x - |
where ! marks the primary accent, X marks an accented beat, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
The ustrok rhythm is a single line with seventeen beats divided into four bars in a 6-3-3-5 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
| x X x x x x | - x - | x x X | x - - - x |
where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

The Poetry of Verse

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