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Shalia (Shalian: Shalıarjów'tıowikh /ʃælʲəˈdʒəʊʔtʲəwɪx/ lit. 'Shalian realm') is a country in Eastern Txapoalli. Its official language is Shalian.
Music
Instruments
The most important instrument in Shalian music is the human voice. Instruments such as guitars, Talman fiddles/violins, pianos, ocarinas, and various percussions are also used.
Vocal polyphony is an important part of Shalian music, especially in coming of age parties, festivities, and funerals. Singers may also vocalize rhythms, clap, snap their fingers and make various gestures. Sung music reflects the glottal stops, stress accent and long-short rhythms of the Shalian language.
Solo singing may use a free tuning and be used in pansori-like contexts.
Tuning
Shalian music is based on decatonic scales, which are built on
- 7-limit tempered pentatonic scales which are commonly used to build tension, and
- septimal tetrads (esp. voicings of 4:5:6:7) which may be used as harmonic resolutions.
Old Shalian and Idosian sources describe a just intonation system based on ratios of 3 and 5, which was much like the system of 22 shrutis described in early Indian works.
When tetrachords from Hetom became popular, Idosian scholar ___ tried to extend the early 22-note system to make it more compatible with playing various tetrachords found in Hetomic music theory. The result was a scale of 34 notes per octave.
As Shalian music embraced vocal polyphony it saw a move away from tetrachords and towards more harmonic, chord-based sounds. Emphasizing JI ratios of 7 became desirable. Thus fixed pitch instruments were tuned to 22-note well-tempered scales with good harmonic sevenths. Modern Shalian music is standardized to 22-tone equal temperament, which does not always reflect musical reality exactly, as unaccompanied Shalian polyphonic vocal music is intoned more accurately.