Verse:Mwail/Bjeheond/Music

Hlou-Ku music

The first orchestras (Ve Rein, literally 'musical groups') in Bjeheond were invented by ancient Hlou-Ku speaking musicians.

A popular instrument in Hlou and Ku music is the blad which is a curled up banana leaf that when blown, produces a shrill, high pitched sound. Different pitches can be produced by pulling on the blad.

Other commonly used instruments are the jaw harp (Schön Ried), the tromba marina (Trlöb Schmie), the bowed psaltery (Trlaub), the slide guitar (Dru), rebecs (Ntzein) and violins of various sizes, and various kinds of prepared piano and guitar. Inharmonic and unpitched percussion instruments like chimes, woodblocks and rasps are also common.

A common folk instrument originating from Liai music is the kantele (Zeig Pfaß), tuned to harmonics from 4 to 16.

Tuning

Hlou musicians don't confine themselves to fixed tuning systems, except on fixed pitch instruments, which are typically tuned to JI scales.

Melodies in Hlou music are inspired by the contours of speech.

Styles

Hlou music uses many forms familiar from European classical music: canon, fugue, sonata, Lied (art song; the word comes from an archaic Hlou word meaning "to express"), symphony, and concerto.

The Hlou Lied is typically accompanied with a slide guitar (Dru) and its vocal style is much closer to speech than the German Lied.