The Instrumental Roses

The Instrumental Roses is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Equality of Foreknowledges. 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 tiycod, a qaqeaq and three itoq. The musical voices bring melody, counterpoint and rhythm. The entire performance is consistently slowing. The melody and counterpoint both have short phrases throughout the form. It is performed in free rhythm.

• The tiycod always should perform expressively.
• The qaqeaq always should bring a sense of motion.
• Each itoq always should be stately.
• The Instrumental Roses has the following structure: an introduction and three to four brief unrelated passages.
• The introduction is voiced by the melody of the tiycod and the melody of the itoq. The passage is to be soft. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the oq scale.
• Each of the simple passages is voiced by the melody of the qaqeaq, the counterpoint of the tiycod and the rhythm of the itoq. Each passage is to be in whispered undertones. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range. Each passage is performed using the oqua scale.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. 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 at (spoken at), iadok (iad), poqin (po), oti (ot), nuod (nuo), ojip (oj) and qat (qa).
• The oq hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named edo and uki.
• The edo tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 8th and the 11th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The uki trichord is the 15th, the 19th and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The oqua hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named edo and ahdid.
• The ahdid trichord is the 15th, the 23rd and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.

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