The Flower of Pantomiming
The Flower of Pantomiming is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the goblin Stozu Nightmarecyclones. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds. The entire performance is to be moderately soft. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the ost scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note and use grace notes.
- The singer always does the main melody and should feel mysterious. The voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
- The Flower of Pantomiming has the following structure: a verse and a brief chorus all repeated two times.
- The verse is extremely fast.
- The chorus is slower than the last passage.
- Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
- The ost heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a perfect fifth and a major third. These chords are named asmuk and ok.
- The asmuk pentachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 6th, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
- The ok trichord is the 9th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
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