The Pecan of Shedding

The Pecan of Shedding is a devotional form of music 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. The music is played on a olku. The entire performance is to be moderately loud. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. It is performed using the dot scale and in the exusp rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play staccato.

• The olku always does the main melody and should build as the performance proceeds.
• The Pecan of Shedding has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a theme, a bridge-passage and a series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The theme is very fast. This passage typically has some sparse chords.
• The bridge-passage is half the tempo of the last passage. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The series of variations resumes the original tempo. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage should be composed and performed using trills.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are omuslone (spoken om) and gul (gu).
• The dot heptatonic scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named uturo and roxstat.
• The uturo pentachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 7th, the 11th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The roxstat tetrachord is the 15th, the 17th, the 19th and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The exusp rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 8-8-8-8 pattern. The beats are named ozu (spoken oz), dusmorabur (du), kulu (ku), doram (do), ellusmesmuk (el), langkaz (la), reraspog (re) and exazgong (ex). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - x - - - x | x x x x x x x X | x - x x x ! - x`| x - - - - - x - |
• where ! marks the primary accent, X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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