The Magma-Man of Unearthing

The Magma-man of Unearthing is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of The Tsavorite of Brands originating in The Fallacious Nightwing of Ridges. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a dun. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance is to be very loud. The melody has mid-length phrases, while the counterpoint has long phrases throughout the form. Chords, seldom-used, are sparse -- intervals and single pitches are favored. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play rapid runs.

• The singer always does the main melody and should feel mournful. The voice uses its entire range.
• The dun always does the counterpoint melody and should be stately. The voice ranges from the nasal middle register to the slicing high register.
• The Magma-man of Unearthing has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage slows and broadens. The passage is performed using the nadu scale.
• Scales are constructed from thirteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-x-x-x-x--xxx-x-x-x-xO, 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 nadu hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 6th, the 9th, the 10th and the 11th.

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