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* a shruti box that plays 5-note drones for guiding singing | * a shruti box that plays 5-note drones for guiding singing | ||
* "talking" pitched instruments: drums, flutes, trombones and fretless bowed strings | * "talking" pitched instruments: drums, flutes, trombones and fretless bowed strings | ||
* monochord/bass drone to reinforce the tonic of a scale, (because the melody might not tonicize it) | |||
== Scales == | == Scales == | ||
Zzean music is abstractly based on a pentatonic framework, onto which the five tone levels of Zzean are mapped. Seven-note scales are viewed as ways to ornament 5-note scales. However, not all Zzean pentatonic scales are octave-equivalent. | Zzean music is abstractly based on a pentatonic framework, onto which the five tone levels of Zzean are mapped. Seven-note scales are viewed as ways to ornament 5-note scales. However, not all Zzean pentatonic scales are octave-equivalent. |
Revision as of 21:40, 7 May 2023
Owing in part to the large number of tones in the Zzean language, how Zzeans perform and view music radically differs from mainstream Western culture.
For Zzeans, non-"tonal" elements such as rhythm, ornamentation, and scale choice are vital for distinguishing monophonic singing from normal speech. Choral vocal music that uses big block chords is wordless; polyphonic word-ful singing is used in specialized contexts.
The boundary between vocal and instrumental music in Zzean culture is somewhat ill-defined, as pitched instruments can "speak" by imitating the tones of speech. One can also choose to play instruments in a more "relaxed" or "conversational" manner by playing in speech-like contours rather than song-like ones, an option also available for voice.
Forms and styles
Zzean singing traditions include:
- an intoned singing tradition
- hiphop/rap (speech with stylized rhythm and sometimes autotune)
- a religious chanting tradition with much ornamentation
- some weird form of musical theater?
- something really weird and independent from Cuam music's weirdness
Instruments
- a shruti box that plays 5-note drones for guiding singing
- "talking" pitched instruments: drums, flutes, trombones and fretless bowed strings
- monochord/bass drone to reinforce the tonic of a scale, (because the melody might not tonicize it)
Scales
Zzean music is abstractly based on a pentatonic framework, onto which the five tone levels of Zzean are mapped. Seven-note scales are viewed as ways to ornament 5-note scales. However, not all Zzean pentatonic scales are octave-equivalent.