The Nutty Rambutans

The Nutty Rambutans is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Lawmaker of Peanuts. 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 spi, a ersoruni and a quislerocu. The musical voices bring melody, counterpoint and rhythm. The entire performance is consistently slowing. The counterpoint melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note and add fills.

• The spi always should perform expressively and is to become louder and louder.
• The ersoruni always does the main melody, should be melancholic and is to start loud then be immediately soft.
• The quislerocu always should be delicate and is to be very loud.
• The Nutty Rambutans has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a chorus and a verse all repeated two times.
• The introduction is voiced by the melody of the ersoruni and the counterpoint of the spi. The ersoruni stays in the slicing high register and the spi stays in the dark low register. The passage has phrases of varied length in the melody. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed using the ujel scale and in free rhythm.
• The chorus is voiced by the melody of the ersoruni, the rhythm of the spi and the rhythm of the quislerocu. The ersoruni stays in the slicing high register and the spi covers its entire range. The passage has short phrases in the melody. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage is performed using the ofing scale and in the warosp rhythm. The passage should be composed and performed using rapid runs.
• The verse is voiced by the melody of the ersoruni, the rhythm of the spi and the rhythm of the quislerocu. The ersoruni covers its entire range from the wispy low register to the slicing high register and the spi covers its entire range. The passage has long phrases in the melody. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed using the bushcirne scale and in free rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The ujel pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a perfect fifth and a major third. These chords are named ohural and uwakri.
• The ohural trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The uwakri trichord is the 9th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The ofing hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 2nd, the 5th, the 8th, the 9th and the 10th.
• The bushcirne pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named furithali and pumdom.
• The furithali trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 6th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The pumdom trichord is the 8th, the 12th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The warosp rhythm is made from three patterns: the gad, the naccak and the bokem. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The gad rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into two bars in a 4-4 pattern. The beats are named anar (spoken an), imesathi (im), iwarolera (iw) and oquil (oq). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - X x | - x - x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The naccak rhythm is a single line with seven beats. The beats are named vishages (spoken vi), kungujith (ku), udal (ud), xur (xu), ibbekur (ib), ocgothrom (oc) and ingdaspod (ing). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x - - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The bokem rhythm is a single line with seven beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - - x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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