The Rosy Tones

The Rosy Tones is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Diagonal Sea-Monster. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites The Golden-Beryl of Red-Beryls while the music is played on a omusmagu and a abam. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is to be very loud. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Pitches are densely packed in clusters as music moves from chord to chord. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the ulong rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play arpeggios.

• The singer always provides the rhythm and should feel furious. The voice stays in the low register.
• The omusmagu always does the main melody and should be broad.
• The abam always provides the rhythm and should feel playful.
• The Rosy Tones has a simple structure: three to four unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is moderately paced.
• The ulong rhythm is made from two patterns: the sangob (considered the primary) and the obst. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The sangob rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 8-8-8-8 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x x x x x - | x x x x x x x x | x - x x x x x - | x - x - - - - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The obst rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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