The Roses of Drumming

The Roses of Drumming is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Alone Bib. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on three oshed and a izdash. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The melody and counterpoint both have short phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the liloran scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play staccato.

• Each oshed always does the counterpoint melody. The voice stays in the strident high register.
• The izdash always does the main melody and makes trills. The strident voice uses its entire range.
• The Roses of Drumming has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage should feel tender and is fast, and it is to be very soft. The passage is performed in the erith rhythm.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the liloran heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ong and afonan.
• The ong tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 6th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The afonan tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 8th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The erith rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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