The Melodic Mango

The Melodic Mango is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Order of Lofts. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds. The entire performance is to be very loud. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the kopi scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play arpeggios.

• The singer always does the main melody and should be passionate.
• The Melodic Mango has the following structure: one to two passages and another one to two passages possibly all repeated.
• Each of the first simple passages is at a walking pace. The singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• Each of the second simple passages is at a hurried pace. The singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• Scales are constructed from thirteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-x-x--x-x-xx-x-x-xx-xO, 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. Every note is named. The names are axod (spoken ax), uki (uk), uok (uok), ahdid (ah), toki (to), oq (oq), dotip (do), kotoq (ko), kiqo (ki), ituq (it), piaki (pia), edo (ed) and qahpa (qa).
• The kopi heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 2nd, the 5th, the 7th, the 9th, the 11th and the 12th.

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