The Sandstorm of Searing

The Sandstorm of Searing is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Kesm Inflictedslashed the Ire of Confusion originating in The Curse of Clear-Garnets. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a gam, a dak and one to two zebra. The musical voices bring melody, counterpoint and rhythm. The entire performance should be fiery. The melody and counterpoint both have short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the sangob scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note, add fills and alternate tension and repose.

• The gam always does the counterpoint melody.
• The dak always provides the rhythm.
• Each zebra always does the main melody.
• The Sandstorm of Searing has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a brief verse and a chorus all repeated two times.
• The introduction is very fast, and it is to become louder and louder. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed in free rhythm.
• The verse is at a free tempo, and it is to be very loud. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed in the alazgo rhythm.
• The chorus gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed in the luz rhythm. The passage should be performed using arpeggios.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. 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 strob (spoken stro) and kestraruga (ke).
• As always, the sangob hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named daxst and axslor.
• The daxst tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The axslor trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The alazgo rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into eight bars in a 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 pattern. The beats are named zesnunsura (spoken ze) and buzsp (bu). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | x - | x - | - x | x - | x - | - x | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The luz rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into four bars in a 4-4-4-4 pattern. The beats are named orustrur (spoken or), snas (sna), ulong (ul) and exusp (ex). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x x | x - - - | x - - x | x - - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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