The Bayberry of Songbooks

The Bayberry of Songbooks is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Immortal Savagery. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Two speakers recite The Hagfish of Seances while the music is played on a ukta and two tosm. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is at a free tempo. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the sastospu scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use mordents and modulate frequently.

• Each speaker always should feel mournful.
• The ukta always provides the rhythm and should bring a sense of motion.
• Each tosm always does the main melody and should be lively.
• The Bayberry of Songbooks has the following structure: one to two passages and an additional passage.
• Each of the first simple passages is to be soft. This passage typically has some sparse chords.
• The second simple passage is to be soft. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• As always, the sastospu pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named nadu and uturo.
• The nadu trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The uturo trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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