The Compositional Musics

The Compositional Musics is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the elf Iquabe Goblin-Capdesert-Lime-Tree. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites any composition of The Muck-Root-Plant of Funny-Bones while the music is played on a emayini and a ovisaga. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance is to become louder and louder. The melody has mid-length phrases, while the counterpoint has short phrases throughout the form. The music is broadly layered with chords spanning the range. It is performed using the everinopefa scale and in the slutha rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes.

• The singer always does the counterpoint melody and should be grand. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The emayini always does the main melody and should perform expressively.
• The ovisaga always does the main melody, should feel mournful and makes trills.
• The Compositional Musics has a simple structure: three to five unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is consistently slowing.
• Scales are constructed from fourteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-xx-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 everinopefa hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 6th, the 7th, the 10th and the 12th.
• The slutha rhythm is made from two patterns: the ebalo and the ucame. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The ebalo rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x`- - x |
• where ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The ucame rhythm is a single line with five beats. The beats are named ifiyo (spoken if), izeli (iz), bone (bo), umamalu (um) and emayethi (em). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | X x'x'- x |
• where X marks an accented beat, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In early summer of 120, The Compositional Musics was created by the elf Iquabe Goblin-Capdesert-Lime-Tree in Quotedrobust