The Coming Horde

The Coming Horde is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Odomaluz the Vagabond of Restocking originally devised by the kobold Dane Inhospitablesquirmed. 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 ugstruko and a eslum. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to add fills.

• The ugstruko always provides the rhythm and should be passionate.
• The eslum always does the main melody and should be spirited.
• The Coming Horde has the following structure: an introduction and three to four brief unrelated passages.
• The introduction is slow, and it is to become softer and softer. The eslum ranges from the slicing middle register to the ringing high register. The passage is performed using the assna scale and in the doram rhythm.
• Each of the simple passages is slow, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. The eslum ranges from the buzzy low register to the slicing middle register. Each passage is performed using the gaxog scale and in free rhythm.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the assna heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named zuxaz and bagurod.
• The zuxaz tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The bagurod tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 6th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• As always, the gaxog hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ragu and uturo.
• The ragu tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The uturo trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The doram rhythm is made from two patterns: the luz and the odo. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The luz rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named orustrur (spoken or), snas (sna), ulong (ul) and exusp (ex). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The odo rhythm is a single line with eight beats. The beats are named sangob (spoken sa), obungasnu (ob), strob (stro), kestraruga (ke), dot (do), obst (obst), omuslone (om) and gul (gu). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - - x - - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In early spring of 64, The Coming Horde was created by the kobold Dane Inhospitablesquirmed in Slatebarriers in order to glorify her deity Odomaluz the Vagabond of Restocking