The Musical Fanfare

The Musical Fanfare is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Mother of Exfoliating. 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 abpali. The entire performance gradually slows as it comes to an end. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the shudash scale and in the uc rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes.

• The abpali always does the main melody and should build as the performance proceeds.
• The Musical Fanfare has a simple structure: three to four lengthy unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is to be loud.
• 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.
• As always, the shudash pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ohural and equanamsespe.
• The ohural trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The equanamsespe trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The uc rhythm is made from two patterns: the iwarolera (considered the primary) and the iddik.
• The iwarolera rhythm is a single line with eight beats. The beats are named oquil (spoken oq), bokem (bo), inal (in), warosp (wa), vope (vo), ciki (ci), ehim (eh) and iquin (iq). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x - x x x x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The iddik rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into two bars in a 4-4 pattern. The beats are named jonal (spoken jo), emsa (ems), ciloc (ci) and restro (re). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - x | - - - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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