The Mauve Musics

The Mauve Musics is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Infamous Monster. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on three nodluz and a nguzo. The musical voices cover melody, harmony and rhythm. The entire performance is to fade into silence. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the urdu scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to locally improvise.

• Each nodluz always should feel mysterious.
• The nguzo always should be melancholic.
• The Mauve Musics has the following structure: three to four unrelated passages and a coda.
• Each of the simple passages is voiced by the melody of the nguzo and the rhythm of the nodluz. Each passage is moderately fast. The nguzo stays in the breezy high register. Each passage should sometimes include a rising melody pattern with sharpened second degree as well as glides, grace notes, mordents, rapid runs and arpeggios, always include a rising-falling melody pattern with grace notes and rapid runs and often include a falling-rising melody pattern with arpeggios and staccato.
• The coda is voiced by the melody of the nodluz and the harmony of the nguzo. The passage is at a hurried pace. The nguzo stays in the heavy middle register. The passage should often include a falling-rising melody pattern with staccato and often include a rising-falling melody pattern with flattened fourth degree on the rise.
• 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 urdu scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named ogo and slulasp.
• The ogo trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The slulasp trichord is the 15th, the 21st and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.

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