The Tinge of Pale-Brown

The Tinge of Pale-brown is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Xathod originating in The Inclusion of Bans. 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 curidunzov and a eheble. The musical voices are joined in melody. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the shudash scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note and locally improvise.

• The curidunzov always does the main melody and should be jumpy.
• The eheble always does the main melody and should be vigorous. The voice stays in the breezy low register.
• The Tinge of Pale-brown has a simple structure: a lengthy passage.
• The simple passage accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to become louder and louder. The passage should often include a rising-falling melody pattern with sharpened sixth degree on the fall as well as grace notes, mordents and legato.
• 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. A single note in the fundamental scale is named. It is called xathrato (spoken xa, 1st).
• As always, the shudash heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named oxuskor and ohug.
• The oxuskor tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ohug tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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