Tetrachordal Mad Libs Assignment

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Write a short song with a generalized melody in a heptatonic scale. That is, write a melody that specifies a rhythm, as well as which pitch, out of 7 notes per octave, but not the exact tuning of each of the 7 notes. If you like, you could use a blank staff with numbers 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 for noteheads.

The lyrics to this song will be a mad lib. That is, it will have certain words left blank, save for an indication of the part of speech (adjective) or something even more specific (container). Make the blanks so that they are all sung on scale degrees 1, 2, 5, and 6.

Sing the song to any (or every) scale in the Tricesimoprimal Tetrachordal Tesseract. Assign words to each degree of 31 EDO that you use.

(This process may take some extra constraints to produce coherent results because some pitches are used as scale degree 1 in some scales and degree 2 in others!)