The Russet Silkiness

The Russet Silkiness is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Maligned Devil. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites any composition of The Fabulous Strategy. The entire performance should be melancholic. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the usnusp scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to alternate tension and repose.

• The singer always does the main melody.
• The Russet Silkiness has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and one to two passages and another one to two lengthy passages possibly all repeated.
• The introduction is moderately paced, and it is to be very soft. The singer's voice stays in the high register.
• Each of the first simple passages is consistently slowing, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• Each of the second simple passages is very slow, and it is to be moderately loud. The singer's voice covers its entire range.
• Scales are constructed from seventeen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-x-xxxx-x-xxxx-x-xxxxO, 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, notes are named according to degree. The names are slulasp (spoken slu), ozse (oz), sasne (sa), odu (od), nuklat (nu), ost (ost) and urdu (urd).
• The usnusp heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 4th, the 8th, the 9th, the 10th and the 13th.

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