The Rosy Broad-Bean

The Rosy Broad-bean is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Heterosexual Patricide. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a erub. The entire performance is slow. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the nexo rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to syncopate.

• The erub always provides the rhythm and should perform sweetly.
• The Rosy Broad-bean has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction, a lengthy theme, an exposition of the theme, a recapitulation of the theme and a coda.
• The introduction is to start loud then be immediately soft.
• The theme is to be soft.
• The exposition is to become softer and softer.
• The recapitulation is to be in whispered undertones.
• The coda is to be loud.
• The nexo rhythm is made from two patterns: the exazgong (considered the primary) and the reraspog. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The exazgong rhythm is a single line with twenty-seven beats divided into five bars in a 6-7-4-8-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x x x x x | - - x x - - x | - - - x | - - x - - - - x | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The reraspog rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | x - | x - | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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