The Raspberry of Wines

The Raspberry of Wines is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Cobaltite of Redoubles. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A chanter recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on two ozust and a ngmamust. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is to become louder and louder. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. It is performed using the mer scale and in the zolibosh rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play arpeggios.

• The chanter always does the main melody and should be triumphant.
• Each ozust always provides the rhythm and should perform with feeling.
• The ngmamust always does the main melody and should be passionate.
• The Raspberry of Wines has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction, a passage and a coda.
• The introduction slows and broadens. The chanter's voice stays in the middle register and each of the ozust stays in the watery high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage should be composed and performed using staccato.
• The simple passage is slower than the last passage. The chanter's voice stays in the low register and each of the ozust stays in the ringing low register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage should be composed and performed using staccato.
• The coda resumes the original tempo. The chanter's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register and each of the ozust covers its entire range from the ringing low register to the watery high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• 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 kistek (spoken ki) and lesul (le).
• The mer scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named ong and imkekir.
• The ong trichord is the 1st, the 14th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The imkekir trichord is the 15th, the 23rd and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The zolibosh rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into five bars in a 9-7-4-5-7 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x x x x x x`x x | x - - - x x - | x - x x | - x x - - | - x'x - x x - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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