The Musicianly Music

The Musicianly Music is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Doorstop of Spiny-Dogfishes. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a mathog, a serloken and a ishosel. The musical voices cover melody, harmony and rhythm. The entire performance should be delicate. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the un scale and in the odulimozsen rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note, make trills and add fills.

• The mathog always does harmony.
• The serloken always does the main melody. The voice uses its entire range from the wavering low register to the strained high register.
• The ishosel always provides the rhythm. The voice ranges from the raspy middle register to the nasal high register.
• The Musicianly Music has a simple structure: three to four lengthy unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to be soft.
• Scales are constructed from fourteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-x-x-x-xx-xx-x-xx-x-xO, 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 vazast (spoken va), mudesod (mu), liloran (li), toker (to), madensham (ma), imkekir (imk) and rekom (re).
• The un heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 6th, the 7th, the 8th, the 11th and the 14th.
• The odulimozsen rhythm is made from two patterns: the tamosh and the ozisash. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The tamosh rhythm is a single line with seven beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - - - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The ozisash rhythm is a single line with eight beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x'x`- - - - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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