The Songbook of Spelt-Grains

The Songbook of Spelt-grains is a devotional form of music originating in The Heterosexual Patricide. 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 alon, two enguslu and a uzogasto. The musical voices cover melody, harmony and rhythm. The entire performance should be broad. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the sastospu scale. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to alternate tension and repose and play staccato.

• The alon always does the main melody.
• Each enguslu always provides the rhythm.
• The uzogasto always does harmony. The voice stays in the wispy high register.
• The Songbook of Spelt-grains has the following structure: three lengthy unrelated passages and a coda.
• Each of the simple passages is consistently slowing, and it is to be loud. The alon covers its entire range from the buzzy low register to the slicing high register and the uzogasto stays in the wispy high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. Each passage is performed in free rhythm. Each passage should be composed and performed using arpeggios and legato.
• The coda is slow, and it is to fade into silence. The alon stays in the buzzy low register and the uzogasto stays in the wispy high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed in the exazgong rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. Every note is named. The names are gul (spoken gu), xedludutoka (xe), dosno (do), luz (lu), orustrur (or), snas (sna), ulong (ul), exusp (ex), ozu (oz), dusmorabur (du), kulu (ku) and ellusmesmuk (el).
• The sastospu pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th, the 7th and the 12th.
• The exazgong rhythm is a single line with twenty-seven beats divided into five bars in a 6-7-4-8-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x x x x x | - - x x - - x | - - - x | - - x - - - - x | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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