The Russet Music

The Russet Music is a devotional form of music originating in The Infamous Monster. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. One to five singers recite nonsensical words and sounds. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the odu scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note and modulate frequently.

• Each singer always does the main melody and should build as the performance proceeds.
• The Russet Music has the following structure: a theme and a series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The theme slows and broadens, and it is to become louder and louder. Each of the singers' voices covers its entire range.
• The series of variations is fast, and it is to be moderately loud. Each of the singers' voices ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Every note is named. The names are dab (spoken da), nolsmu (no), agun (ag), ung (ung), stotho (sto), bor (bo), osm (osm), enu (en), stol (sto), zak (za), tuxxu (tu), ugas (ug), ustrok (us), gosma (go), kabu (ka), ron (ro), zudol (zu), ospo (os), strog (stro), ulu (ul), smug (smu), tobog (to), stran (stra) and sputo (spu).
• The odu scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named lubu and ekxox.
• The lubu trichord is the 1st, the 9th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The ekxox trichord is the 15th, the 16th and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.

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