The Wondrous Smiles

The Wondrous Smiles is a devotional form of music originating in The Pink Seduction. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. Three speakers recite nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a dod. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance is very fast, and it is to be moderately soft. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the lubu scale. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note and use grace notes.

• Each speaker always should feel tender.
• The dod always does the main melody and should sparkle.
• The Wondrous Smiles has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage is performed in the osmze rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from twenty notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xx-xxxxx-xx-xxx-xxxxxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are usnusp (spoken us) and ngub (ngu).
• The lubu hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 7th, the 10th, the 13th and the 16th.
• The rhythm system is fundamentally polyrhythmic. There are always multiple rhythm lines, and each of their bars is played over the same period of time, regardless of the number of beats. The rhythm lines are thought of as one, without a primary-subordinate relationship, though individual lines can be named.
• The osmze rhythm is made from three patterns: the nol (considered the primary), the dab and the ekxox. As stated above, they are to be played in polyrhythm.
• The nol rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into eight bars in a 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | - x | - x | - x | x - | x x | - x | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The dab rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The ekxox rhythm is a single line with eight beats. The beats are named asmuk (spoken as), ok (ok), slulasp (slu), ozse (oz), sasne (sa), odu (od), nuklat (nu) and ost (ost). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - x - - - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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