The Cymose Blackberry

The Cymose Blackberry is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Glumprong of Tongs. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a ogmen. The entire performance should be forceful and is extremely fast, and it is to be very loud. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Chords, seldom-used, are sparse -- intervals and single pitches are favored. It is performed using the gaxog scale and in the dosno rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to locally improvise and play staccato.

• The ogmen always does the main melody.
• The Cymose Blackberry has a simple structure: three to five lengthy unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages should sometimes include a rising melody pattern with flattened fifth degree.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The gaxog heptatonic scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named zuxaz and sastospu.
• The zuxaz pentachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 9th, the 11th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The sastospu tetrachord is the 15th, the 18th, the 20th and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The dosno rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into four bars in a 4-4-4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x - | - x - x | - - x - | - x x X |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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