The Beige Trumpet

The Beige Trumpet is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Persuasive Berry. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on three irami, a niceyi and a zecalo. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance should evoke tears and is at a walking pace. The melody has phrases of varied length, while the counterpoint has mid-length phrases throughout the form. The music is broadly layered with chords spanning the range. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the thafatha rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to locally improvise and play legato.

• Each irami always does the main melody and is to be loud.
• The niceyi always does the main melody and is to start loud then be immediately soft. The voice is confined to the shrill top register.
• The zecalo always does the counterpoint melody and is to be moderately soft.
• The Beige Trumpet has a simple structure: three to four unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages should be performed using staccato.
• The thafatha rhythm is made from two patterns: the timafi and the amama. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The timafi rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beats are named emu (spoken em) and upe (up). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | x - | x x | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The amama rhythm is a single line with five beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x X x x x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat and | indicates a bar.

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