The Bold Certainty

The Bold Certainty is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Ala Goalflew the Certain Gleams originating in The Responsible Empires. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a mos. The entire performance is very fast. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the tikbo rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to syncopate and alternate tension and repose.

• The mos always provides the rhythm and should evoke tears.
• The Bold Certainty has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a verse and a chorus all repeated up to two times, a bridge-passage and a verse and a chorus.
• The first verse is to be in whispered undertones.
• The first chorus is to fade into silence.
• The bridge-passage is to be in whispered undertones.
• The second verse is to start loud then be immediately soft.
• The second chorus is to be soft.
• The tikbo rhythm is made from two patterns: the musda and the osp. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The musda rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The osp rhythm is a single line with five beats. The beats are named arin (spoken ar), umo (um), rostfen (ro), hiner (hi) and ohe (oh). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x X - - x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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