The Inexplicable Expense

The Inexplicable Expense is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Erlenshos originating in The Turquoise of Revolutions. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites any composition of The Marketable Youngster. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the un scale and in the kistek rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note, use mordents and match notes and syllables.

• The singer always does the main melody and should be jumpy. The voice uses its entire range.
• The Inexplicable Expense has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage is moderately paced, and it is to be loud.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-two notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xxx-xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The un pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 11th, the 16th and the 20th.
• The kistek rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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