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+Roshterian music is a lot like gamelan. It uses inharmonic instruments like gongs and marimbas, and scales such as slendro (approximate 5edo) and mavila (7 or 9 notes out of approximate 16edo).
-==Music==
-Traditional Wiobian music places much emphasis on melody, often having two melodic voices in counterpoint for high-class music, though more modern music often calls for more dense orchestration. (read: cobbled together from gamelan, Southeast Asian and Baroque influences. Some Korean stuff will probably get in too) The music is based on a scale with fifteen notes per octave, that is capable of both small movements in melody and harmonic shifts ranging from the subtle to the dramatic. A wealth of inharmonic instruments such as  metallophones (Ɉürl-Zrong-Smiḥ), marimbas (Geim-Zrong-Smiḥ), cymbals and drums serve as ingredients for this sonic landscape. However also valued are harmonic instruments (such as stringed instruments e.g. the plucked or bowed zither-like ''Tünd'', the strummed and fretted ''Þaus-Bung'', and the bowed ''Nisch&Ker''; as well as fixed-pitch wind instruments; and last but not least the human voice), for their ability to imitate the human voice and to emphasize canonically harmonic intervals.
-Musics of neighboring cultures such as Trây music are broadly similar.
-==Musical forms==
-==Instruments==
-How could instruments accomodate 15 notes per octave?
-===Idiophones===
-The idiophones are:
-* metallophones (''Ɉürl-Zrong-Smiḥ'') and marimbas (''Geim-Zrong-Smiḥ'')
-====''Zrong-Smiḥ''====
-A suitably modern ''Zrong-Smiḥ'' is made up of three parallel rows of keys tuned in equally spaced pentatonic scales.
-===String instruments===
-===Wind instruments===
-==Tuning and scales==
-*8 + 7 is the most space-saving "black and white" layout, ∴ porcupine?
-*5 + 5 + 5 could work too
-===Origins and development===
-Long story short:
-The Wiobian tuning system has its origins in the quasi-equal pentatonic scale, found in our world in e.g. [[w:gamelan|gamelan]] music - this system is described in Classical Wiobian records:
- C   D   F   G   A   C
-Then, Wiobian musicians in the "Wiobian Renaissance" started experimenting with more "interesting" sounds, such as major thirds (5/4, ~400¢), and a "major seventh" to serve as a leading tone:
- C   D   F   G   A   C
-         E\|         B\|
-Coincidentally, the major third was a leading tone to F and the major seventh was a major third to G! Exploiting this fact, leading tones were successively added under each note of the equal pentatonic scale, eventually resulting in:
- C   D   F   G   A   C
-     D\| E\| G\| A\| B\|
-Later, more dense orchestration increased the demand for chromatic movements. Thus eventually the full 15-tone gamut was complete:
- C/| D/| F/| G/| A/|
- C   D   F   G   A   C
-     D\| E\| G\| A\| B\|
-===Tuning method===
-===Modern===
-====Nominal names====
-*''do'' - 0\15
-*''ko'' - 3\15
-*''lo'' - 5\15
-*''go'' - 6\15
-*''wo'' - 9\15
-*''dżo'' - 11\15
-*''no'' - 12\15
-*''cho'' - 14\15
-*''do'' - 15\15