The Rosy Ginkgo-Seeds

The Rosy Ginkgo-seeds is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Empires of Endeavoring. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on two mogu. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance should be spirited and is at a free tempo, and it is to become softer and softer. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the iquur scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to alternate tension and repose.

• The singer always does the main melody. The voice uses its entire range.
• Each mogu always provides the rhythm.
• The Rosy Ginkgo-seeds has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage should be composed and performed using glides.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Every note is named. The names are uthrogumat (spoken uthr), sorot (so), pumdom (pu), dos (do), aheda (ah), ofing (of), ujel (uj) and bushcirne (bu).
• As always, the iquur pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ohural and oruslumcopo.
• The ohural trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The oruslumcopo trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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