The Sandy-Clay-Loam of Tilling

The Sandy-clay-loam of Tilling is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Tugstune the Onyx-opal Dunes originating in The Avarice of Improving. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on three otongu. The entire performance should be spirited, and it is to become softer and softer. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the ozzok scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use grace notes and play staccato.

• Each otongu always does the main melody.
• The Sandy-clay-loam of Tilling has the following structure: three to five unrelated passages and a lengthy coda.
• Each of the simple passages slows and broadens. Each of the otongu stays in the liquid low register. Each passage is performed in free rhythm.
• The coda is moderately fast. Each of the otongu stays in the rich high register. The passage is performed in the exazgong rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from nineteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xx-x-xxxx-xxxxx-xx-xxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. After a scale is constructed, notes are named according to degree. The names are masul (spoken ma), axslor (ax), bagurod (ba), sastospu (sa), assna (as), xuzestra (xu) and roxstat (ro).
• The ozzok hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 7th, the 9th, the 13th and the 15th.
• The exazgong rhythm is made from two patterns: the tekug (considered the primary) and the dosno. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The tekug rhythm is a single line with twenty beats divided into four bars in a 2-8-5-5 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | x x - ! x x - x | x - X - x | x - - - - |
• where ! marks the primary accent, X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The dosno rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named luz (spoken lu), orustrur (or), snas (sna) and ulong (ul). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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