The Jam of Oranges

The Jam of Oranges is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Infamy of Weaklings. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites any composition of The Egocentric Agenda while the music is played on a xomur and a dolkuspakom. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to make trills, locally improvise, add fills, play legato and match notes and syllables.

• The singer always provides the rhythm and should evoke tears. The voice stays in the low register.
• The xomur always provides the rhythm and should evoke tears.
• The dolkuspakom always does the main melody and should be vigorous.
• The Jam of Oranges has the following structure: a verse and a chorus all repeated two times.
• The verse is very fast, and it is to fade into silence. The dolkuspakom stays in the rippling high register and the singer's voice stays in the low register. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range. The passage is performed in the ulong rhythm.
• The chorus is at a free tempo, and it is to be very loud. The dolkuspakom covers its entire range from the raspy low register to the rippling high register and the singer's voice stays in the low register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage is performed in the xukom rhythm.
• The ulong rhythm is a single line with four beats divided into two bars in a 2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The xukom rhythm is made from two patterns: the nesu (considered the primary) and the xedludutoka. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The nesu rhythm is a single line with seventeen beats divided into three bars in a 6-6-5 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x - - - | - - X x`x x | - x x - - |
• where X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The xedludutoka rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named dosno (spoken do), luz (lu), orustrur (or) and snas (sna). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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