The Strawberry of Songbooks

The Strawberry of Songbooks is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Clocks of Disloyalty. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A chanter recites any composition of The Yellow-Zircon Fungiwoods. The entire performance should be made with a light touch and is consistently slowing, and it is to fade into silence. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the shudash scale and in the emsor rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note.

• The chanter always does the main melody.
• The Strawberry of Songbooks has the following structure: a lengthy chorus and a lengthy verse all repeated two times.
• In the chorus, the chanter's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. The passage should be composed and performed using grace notes.
• In the verse, the chanter's voice stays in the middle register. The passage should be composed and performed using legato.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• As always, the shudash hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named oxuskor and iquur.
• The oxuskor trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The iquur tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The emsor rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named naccak (spoken na) and vishages (vi). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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