The Vinous Prickle-Berries

The Vinous Prickle-berries is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Meritorious Bowline. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a izocithe, a wamefade and a oborowe. The musical voices cover melody, harmony and rhythm. The entire performance gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to be very loud. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to syncopate.

• The izocithe always does harmony. The voice uses its entire range from the wispy low register to the sparkling high register.
• The wamefade always does the main melody. The muddy voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The oborowe always provides the rhythm.
• The Vinous Prickle-berries has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage should be triumphant. The passage is performed using the izela scale.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-two notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xxxxxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxO, 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.
• The izela heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 8th, the 9th, the 12th, the 15th and the 19th.

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