The Wispy Glosses

The Wispy Glosses is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Maligned Devil. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a uspslol and a snos. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the ekxox scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play arpeggios.

• The uspslol always provides the rhythm and should bring a sense of motion. The voice uses its entire range from the liquid low register to the breezy high register.
• The snos always does the main melody and should perform expressively.
• The Wispy Glosses has a simple structure: three unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft.
• 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 ekxox hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 5th, the 10th, the 13th and the 17th.

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