The Musicianly Tone

The Musicianly Tone is a devotional form of music originating in The Insignia of Socks. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Three speakers recite The Exegesis of Considering while the music is played on a zothoddazen and two to six cop. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance should be bright. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed in the ofing rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to match notes and syllables.

• The zothoddazen always provides the rhythm. The voice stays in the muddy high register.
• Each cop always does the main melody.
• The Musicianly Tone has the following structure: a passage and a coda.
• The simple passage is at a free tempo, and it is to become louder and louder. Each of the cop ranges from the wispy low register to the dark middle register and the zothoddazen stays in the muddy high register. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range. The passage is performed without preference for a scale. The passage should be performed using trills.
• The coda is at a free tempo, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. Each of the cop ranges from the dark middle register to the strained high register and the zothoddazen stays in the muddy high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed using the furithali scale.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The furithali hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a perfect fifth and a major third. These chords are named othdo and iquur.
• The othdo tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The iquur trichord is the 9th, the 10th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The ofing rhythm is a single line with six beats. The beats are named ujel (spoken uj), bushcirne (bu), emsor (ems), naccak (na), vishages (vi) and kungujith (ku). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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