The Veneration of Incense

The Veneration of Incense is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Wickedness of Trouble. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a sad, a anga and a uspax. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to modulate frequently.

• The sad always does the main melody and should be strong.
• The anga always provides the rhythm and should be passionate. The voice uses its entire range from the vibrating low register to the strident high register.
• The uspax always provides the rhythm and should be melancholic.
• The Veneration of Incense has a simple structure: three to four unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to be loud. Each passage is performed using the ost scale.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the ost hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named lasm and ngub.
• The lasm tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ngub trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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