The Pallid Death-Rattle

The Pallid Death-rattle is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Dospu the Fragment of Concluding originating in The Infamy of Weaklings. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites any composition of The Peremptory Prime-Number. The entire performance is at a free tempo. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the strob scale and in the nexo rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play legato.

• The singer always does the main melody and should be fiery. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The Pallid Death-rattle has the following structure: a verse and a chorus all repeated up to two times.
• The verse is to become softer and softer.
• The chorus is to be loud.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are omuslone (spoken om) and gul (gu).
• The strob pentatonic scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named ozzok and xuzestra.
• The ozzok tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 9th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The xuzestra trichord is the 15th, the 23rd and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The nexo rhythm is made from two patterns: the xedludutoka (considered the primary) and the nesu. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The xedludutoka rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named dosno (spoken do), luz (lu), orustrur (or) and snas (sna). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The nesu rhythm is a single line with seventeen beats divided into three bars in a 6-6-5 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x - - - | - - X x`x x | - x x - - |
• where X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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