The Nectarous Euphony

The Nectarous Euphony is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Zombie of Swarming. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites The Perplexing Grain while the music is played on one to five urogugsmanga. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance should bring a sense of motion. The melody has mid-length phrases, while the counterpoint has phrases of varied length throughout the form. It is performed using the uturo scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use mordents and play arpeggios.

• The singer always does the counterpoint melody and is to be moderately soft.
• Each urogugsmanga always does the main melody and is to become louder and louder.
• The Nectarous Euphony has a well-defined multi-passage structure: one to two passages and another one to two passages possibly all repeated, a lengthy bridge-passage and a finale.
• Each of the first simple passages is at a hurried pace. Each of the urogugsmanga covers its entire range from the strident low register to the raucous high register and the singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• Each of the second simple passages gradually slows as it comes to an end. Each of the urogugsmanga covers its entire range from the strident low register to the raucous high register and the singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The bridge-passage is slow. Each of the urogugsmanga stays in the strident low register and the singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The finale slows and broadens. Each of the urogugsmanga covers its entire range from the strident low register to the raucous high register and the singer's voice covers its entire range. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are axslor (spoken ax) and bagurod (ba).
• The uturo pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 6th, the 7th and the 9th.

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