The Molten Cudgel

The Molten Cudgel is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Kom Singeshot originating in The Confederacies of Habit. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A speaker recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a orid. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance is to be moderately loud. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in free rhythm.

• The speaker always should be jumpy.
• The orid always does the main melody, should be strong and plays staccato.
• The Molten Cudgel has a simple structure: three to four unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is very fast. Each passage is performed using the nek scale.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. 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 lastta (spoken la) and cish (ci).
• As always, the nek hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named rom and othag.
• The rom tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The othag trichord is the 1st, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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