The Wonders of Song

The Wonders of Song is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Bright Lies. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Three speakers recite any composition of The Quiescent Amethyst while the music is played on one to three rospgum. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance should bring a sense of motion. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. It is performed in the ok rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to alternate tension and repose.

• Each rospgum always does the main melody.
• The Wonders of Song has the following structure: an introduction and three to five unrelated passages.
• The introduction slows and broadens, and it is to become softer and softer. Each of the rospgum ranges from the buzzy low register to the raspy middle register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage is performed using the ngub scale.
• Each of the simple passages is extremely fast, and it is to be very soft. Each of the rospgum stays in the raspy middle register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. Each passage is performed using the ogo scale.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are ekxox (spoken ek) and asmuk (as).
• The ngub heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 7th, the 8th, the 11th, the 16th and the 20th.
• The ogo pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 6th, the 14th, the 15th and the 23rd.
• The ok rhythm is a single line with twenty-four beats divided into three bars in a 8-8-8 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | 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.

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