The Instrumental Music

The Instrumental Music is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Justice of Potatoes. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites any composition of The Craggy Wasps while the music is played on a estroslasu and a wisat. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The melody has mid-length phrases, while the counterpoint 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 glide from note to note, make trills and alternate tension and repose.

• The singer always does the main melody and should feel mysterious.
• The estroslasu always does the counterpoint melody and should build as the performance proceeds.
• The wisat always does the main melody and should be forceful.
• The Instrumental Music has the following structure: a lengthy verse and a chorus all repeated one times.
• The verse is at a walking pace, and it is to be loud. The singer's voice stays in the middle register, the wisat covers its entire range from the raucous low register to the rugged top register and the estroslasu stays in the raucous high register. The passage is performed using the uthrogumat scale. The passage should be performed using mordents.
• The chorus is slower than the last passage, and it is to be moderately loud. The singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register, the wisat ranges from the raucous low register to the watery high register and the estroslasu covers its entire range from the nasal low register to the raucous high register. The passage is performed using the shudash scale. The passage should be performed using rapid runs.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• As always, the uthrogumat hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named oxuskor and equanamsespe.
• The oxuskor tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The equanamsespe trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• As always, the shudash heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named deh and ithut.
• The deh tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ithut tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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