The Vinous Jammy Custard-Apple

The Vinous Jammy Custard-apple is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Liberty of Lieges. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A speaker recites any composition of The College of Chaffs while the music is played on a xiq, three jep and a dot. The musical voices bring melody, counterpoint and rhythm. The entire performance is to be soft. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Chords, seldom-used, are sparse -- intervals and single pitches are favored. It is performed using the dotip scale and in the kidoi rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to add fills, play staccato and spread syllables over many notes.

• The speaker always should be delicate.
• The xiq always does the counterpoint melody and should be delicate.
• Each jep always does the main melody, should perform with feeling and glides from note to note.
• The dot always provides the rhythm and should be delicate.
• The Vinous Jammy Custard-apple has the following structure: a theme and a series of variations on the theme.
• The theme is very slow. Each of the jep is confined to the slicing middle register and the xiq stays in the heavy high register. The passage has mid-length phrases in the counterpoint melody.
• The series of variations is fast. Each of the jep covers its entire range from the strong low register to the raucous top register and the xiq covers its entire range from the raspy low register to the heavy high register. The passage has phrases of varied length in the counterpoint melody.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Every note is named. The names are piaki (spoken pia), edo (ed), dodap (do), qahpa (qa), oqua (oq), ej (ej), at (at), iadok (iad), poqin (po), oti (ot) and nuod (nuo).
• As always, the dotip hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named iqap and uok.
• The iqap trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The uok tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The kidoi rhythm is made from two patterns: the ojip and the oaf.
• The ojip rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The oaf rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named ted (spoken te), qeqok (qe), akoi (ak) and op (op). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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