The Umber Smiles

The Umber Smiles is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Union of Moments. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a uwshe. The entire performance should feel tender, and it is to become softer and softer. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Chords, seldom-used, are sparse -- intervals and single pitches are favored. It is performed using the ani scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note.

• The uwshe always does the main melody.
• The Umber Smiles has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage is consistently slowing.
• 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 ani heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named kasmko and woge.
• The kasmko tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 6th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The woge tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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