The Kumquat-Lime of Windfalls

The Kumquat-lime of Windfalls is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Pincers of Moving. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites The Red-Zircon of Faint-Yellow-Diamonds while the music is played on two otthad and a angbir. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed using the liloran scale. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to syncopate and alternate tension and repose.

• The singer always provides the rhythm and should perform expressively. The voice stays in the high register.
• Each otthad always provides the rhythm and should feel heroic.
• The angbir always does the main melody and should be strong. The voice stays in the liquid high register.
• The Kumquat-lime of Windfalls has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage is at a free tempo, and it is to be loud. The passage is performed in the afiddun rhythm. The passage should be composed and performed using frequent modulation.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• As always, the liloran hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named kekorith and afonan.
• The kekorith trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The afonan tetrachord is the 1st, the 5th, the 6th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The afiddun rhythm is made from two patterns: the muzlom and the zulal. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The muzlom rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named ozol (spoken oz) and mer (me). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x |
• where x is a beat and | indicates a bar.
• The zulal rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 8-8-8-8 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x'- - x x x - | - - x x x x`x x | - - x x - x - - | x x - x x x x x |
• where ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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