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Classical-era choral Wiobian music is polyphonic and typically uses notes of the ''Zrehnt'' as fundamentals. Solo music, on the other hand, was very often unwritten and much of it was purely improvised. Solo pieces lacked a ground bass which allowed improvisers the freedom to make highly microtonally inflected melodies, often using a few dozen tones per octave. | Classical-era choral Wiobian music is polyphonic and typically uses notes of the ''Zrehnt'' as fundamentals. Solo music, on the other hand, was very often unwritten and much of it was purely improvised. Solo pieces lacked a ground bass which allowed improvisers the freedom to make highly microtonally inflected melodies, often using a few dozen tones per octave. | ||
In the Romantic era, formerly improvised pieces were written down, forming a new canon, and simultaneous improvisation was introduced. ''Zrehnt''s no longer had to consist of overtone series scales; people were experimenting with other combinations | |||
Instruments typically used for harmony and polyphony, in addition to the voice, are tubulongs, marimbas, reed organs, and zithers. These are typically tuned to a 34 tone 11 limit scale. | |||
==Rhythoed music== | ==Rhythoed music== | ||