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MUSIC

Mystical School
Complexity Rating: 5%   Beginner
Classes Allowed:
  Bard

NAME
music - proficiency of one's ability to use music to create magical

DESCRIPTION
Ability in music is core to the Bard - the greater his musical prowess,
the easier and more powerful the effects he can produce, become. Musical
ability is also enhanced by the use of instruments - the more powerful a
musical instrument is, the more powerful a Bard's magic becomes.

Musicologists in Xaventry, a half-elf named Sachs and an elf named
Hornbostel created a formal taxonomy for musical instruments, classifying
them by the origin of the sound produced. The so-called Sachs-Hornbostel
System categories and sub-categories are:

Idiophone - In which a vibrating solid material is used to produce sound.
Concussion     - Cymbals or castanets
Friction       - Musical glasses
Percussion     - Most unsophisticated drums
Plucked        - Mouth harp or mbira
Scraped        - Washboards
Shaken         - Maracas or bells
Stamping       - Tap shoes
Stamped        - Rhythm blocks
Membranophone - In which a vibrating stretched membrane produces sound.
Kettle Drum    - Timpani
Tubular Drum   - Some specially-shaped drums
Friction Drum  - Frictive drums
Mirliton       - Kazoos
Frame Drum     - Tambourines
Pot Drum       - Pot drums
Ground Drum    - Animal skin stretched over a hole in the ground
Aerophone - In which a vibrating mass of air is used to produce sound.
Brasswind      - Bugles, horns, saxophones, tubas
Woodwind       - Clarinets, flutes, whistles
Free_Reed      - Accordions, bagpipes, harmonicas
Chordophone - In which a stretched vibrating string is used to produce sound.
Musical Bow    - Violins, upright bass
Harp           - Harps
Lyre           - Lyres
Lute           - Guitars, banjos, mandolins, hurdy gurdys
Zither         - Zithers
Electrophone - In which an artificial sound is created and amplified.
Steam          - Jack-in-the-boxes
Magic          - Unknown
Unknown        - Unknown

SEE ALSO
Playing Songs

Comments (1)

Scrooge

on January 10, 2011

The notes for bardic music each comprise a given weight. These weights are added together in a song to find a final weight. This final weight determines what song is played and thus what effect is achieved. Songs with lower weights have lower stamina requirements to play. The spell point requirements are based on the specific spell effect achieved. The individual notes have different weights depending on what position in the song they appear in. Following is a list of notes and their respective weights by song position (leftmost to rightmost):

A: 12 27 35 42 51 64 73
B: 4 21 36 44 53 60 70
C: 5 28 33 43 45 56 64
D: 3 9 27 32 42 51 72
E: 6 17 24 29 35 46 54
F: 7 14 20 31 36 42 50
G: 13 22 34 48 54 61 75

A#: 1 2 5 3 4 5 6
B#: 9 4 13 8 2 3 4
C#: 6 1 8 6 4 5 3
D#: 1 2 7 4 5 6 9
E#: 4 8 3 5 9 2 2
F#: 8 7 6 6 2 1 1
G#: 9 10 11 10 9 8 7

Ab: 6 6 8 7 3 2 1
Bb: 2 1 3 4 9 5 9
Cb: 8 9 10 11 12 13 5
Db: 1 8 7 6 5 4 3
Eb: 4 4 4 2 1 6 3
Fb: 2 5 5 9 2 8 2
Gb: 7 10 9 10 13 7 4

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