The Bewilderment of Mothers

The Bewilderment of Mothers 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 one to four sad and a anga. The musical voices are joined in melody. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed in the ulu rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play rapid runs and modulate frequently.

• Each sad always does the main melody, should perform with feeling and uses mordents.
• The anga always does the main melody and should bring a sense of motion.
• The Bewilderment of Mothers has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a lengthy theme, an exposition of the theme, a bridge-passage and a lengthy recapitulation of the theme.
• The theme is extremely fast, and it is to be soft. The anga covers its entire range from the vibrating low register to the strident high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the sasne scale.
• The exposition slows and broadens, and it is to be loud. The anga stays in the vibrating low register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the urdu scale.
• The bridge-passage is moderately fast, and it is to be moderately loud. The anga covers its entire range from the vibrating low register to the strident high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage is performed using the nuklat scale.
• The recapitulation is at a walking pace, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The anga stays in the strident high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the slusna 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 urdu pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named lubu and ekxox.
• The lubu trichord is the 1st, the 6th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ekxox trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• As always, the nuklat hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ogo and ekxox.
• As always, the slusna hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ogo and asmuk.
• The asmuk trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ulu rhythm is made from three patterns: the ugas, the tuxxu and the enu. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The ugas rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named ustrok (spoken us) and gosma (go). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x |
• where x is a beat and | indicates a bar.
• The tuxxu rhythm is a single line with twenty-one beats divided into three bars in a 7-7-7 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - x'x - x | x - x x x - - | x x - x x x - |
• where ' marks a beat as late, 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.

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