The Jammy Mangos

The Jammy Mangos is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Practical Atrocity. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds. The entire performance is at a free tempo. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the masul scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to locally improvise. From beginning to end, when improvising, artists should often include a falling-rising melody pattern with rapid runs and staccato, often include a rising-falling melody pattern with sharpened sixth degree on the rise, sometimes include a falling melody pattern with sharpened second degree as well as trills and arpeggios and often include a rising melody pattern with trills.

• The singer always does the main melody, should be spirited and modulates frequently.
• The Jammy Mangos has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a passage and an additional passage and a finale.
• The first simple passage is to be in whispered undertones. The singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The second simple passage is to become softer and softer. The singer's voice stays in the middle register.
• The finale is to become louder and louder. The singer's voice stays in the high register.
• Scales are constructed from sixteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-xx-x-x-x-xxxx-x-x-xxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. Every note is named. The names are axslor (spoken ax), bagurod (ba), sastospu (sa), assna (as), xuzestra (xu), roxstat (ro), tekug (te), odo (od), obungasnu (ob), strob (stro), kestraruga (ke), dot (do), obst (obst), omuslone (om), gul (gu) and xedludutoka (xe).
• The masul heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 2nd, the 5th, the 8th, the 9th, the 11th and the 12th.

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