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| [[Wiobian|↑ Wiobian]]
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| Traditional Wiobian music is melodious with relatively sparse accompaniment, often having two melodic voices in counterpoint for high-class music, though more recent music often calls for more dense orchestration. (read: cobbled together from gamelan, Southeast Asian and Baroque influences. Some Korean stuff will 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.
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| Musics of neighboring cultures such as Trây music are broadly similar.
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| ==Musical forms==
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| ==Instruments==
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| How could instruments accomodate 15 notes per octave?
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| ===Idiophones===
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| The idiophones are:
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| * metallophones (''Ɉürl-Zrong-Smiḥ'') and marimbas (''Geim-Zrong-Smiḥ'')
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| ====''Zrong-Smiḥ''====
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| A suitably modern ''Zrong-Smiḥ'' is made up of three parallel rows of keys tuned in equally spaced pentatonic scales.
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| ===String instruments===
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| ===Wind instruments===
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| ==Tuning and scales==
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| *8 + 7 is the most space-saving layout, ∴ porcupine?
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| *5 + 5 + 5 could work too
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| ===Origins===
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| C D F G A C
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| ===Development===
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| ===Modern===
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| Modern renditions of canonical Wiobian traditional music often default to 15 tone equal temperament; that is, every step of the 15-note scale is spaced exactly equally. However, historically the tuning had more nuances.
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