The Meandering Veneration

The Meandering Veneration is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Dungeon of Verses. 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 obtux. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed in the zaxo rhythm.

• The obtux always does the main melody, should be passionate and plays staccato.
• The Meandering Veneration has a simple structure: three unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages slows and broadens, and it is to be very loud. Each passage is performed using the nuklat scale.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, notes are named according to degree. The names are uto (spoken ut), nol (no), dab (da), agun (ag), ung (ung), stotho (sto) and bor (bo).
• As always, the nuklat heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named lubu and ngub.
• The lubu tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ngub tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The zaxo rhythm is made from two patterns: the ustrok and the tuxxu. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The ustrok rhythm is a single line with twenty-three beats divided into two bars in a 11-12 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 tuxxu rhythm is a single line with six beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x`- - x |
• where ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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