The Tulip of Rhythm

The Tulip of Rhythm is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Practical Atrocity. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A speaker recites any composition of The Fire-Clay Tail while the music is played on a abaxxesm. The musical voices are joined in melody. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. The music is broadly layered with chords spanning the range. It is performed using the gaxog scale. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play staccato and spread syllables over many notes.

• The speaker always should be spirited and is to be soft.
• The abaxxesm always does the main melody, should perform sweetly and is to become louder and louder.
• The Tulip of Rhythm has the following structure: one to two passages and another one to two passages possibly all repeated.
• Each of the first simple passages is very slow. Each passage is performed in the exusp rhythm.
• Each of the second simple passages is fast. Each passage is performed in the alazgo rhythm.
• 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 gaxog hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 7th, the 9th, the 13th and the 16th.
• The exusp rhythm is a single line with fourteen beats divided into two bars in a 7-7 pattern. The beats are named ozu (spoken oz), dusmorabur (du), kulu (ku), doram (do), ellusmesmuk (el), langkaz (la) and reraspog (re). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x x x - - | - - - x x - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The alazgo rhythm is made from two patterns: the exazgong and the dosno. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The exazgong rhythm is a single line with four beats divided into two bars in a 2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The dosno rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 11-6-8-7 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x x - x x x - x x x | - x - x - x | - - x - - - x - | x x - x x x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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