The Fabulous Bewilderment

The Fabulous Bewilderment is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originally devised by the goblin Bosa Puzzledmenaced. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. One to two singers recite The Adorable Luxuries while the music is played on one to two sad and a sodor. The musical voices cover melody, harmony and rhythm. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. It is performed in the tobog rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to syncopate, alternate tension and repose and play legato.

• Each singer always does harmony.
• Each sad always provides the rhythm.
• The sodor always does the main melody.
• The Fabulous Bewilderment has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a verse and a lengthy chorus all repeated two times.
• The introduction should be fiery and is fast, and it is to be moderately soft. Each of the singers' voices ranges from the middle register to the high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed without preference for a scale. The passage should be composed and performed using frequent modulation.
• The verse should be made with feeling and is fast, and it is to be loud. Each of the singers' voices covers its entire range. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed using the sasne scale.
• The chorus should be passionate and is slower than the last passage, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. Each of the singers' voices stays in the high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage is performed using the xenmu 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 sasne hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ogo and ngub.
• The ogo tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, 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.
• As always, the xenmu pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named abo and asmuk.
• The abo trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The asmuk trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The tobog rhythm is made from two patterns: the kabu (considered the primary) and the enu. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The kabu rhythm is a single line with five beats. The beats are named ron (spoken ro), zudol (zu), zaxo (za), ospo (os) and strog (stro). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The enu rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into eight bars in a 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 pattern. The beats are named stol (spoken sto) and zak (za). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | x - | x - | - x | - x'| x'x | x x | x x`|
• where ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In midsummer of 231, The Fabulous Bewilderment was created by the goblin Bosa Puzzledmenaced in Vilevandal