Literature talk:Little Red Riding Hood

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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.

Musics of neighboring cultures such as Trây music are broadly similar.

Instruments

How could instruments accomodate 15 notes per octave?

Idiophones

The idiophones are:

• metallophones (Ɉürl-Zrong-Smiḥ) and marimbas (Geim-Zrong-Smiḥ)

The Zrong-Smiḥ are arranged in a parallel set of three equal pentatonic scales.

Tuning and scales

• 8 + 7 is the most space-saving layout, ∴ porcupine?
• 5 + 5 + 5 could work too

Origins

The Wiobian tuning system has its origins in the quasi-equal pentatonic scale, found in our world in e.g. gamelan music - this system is described in Classical Wiobian texts.

Modern

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.