The Fruity Lyric

The Fruity Lyric is a form of music used to commemorate important events 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. A singer recites any composition of The Emerald Tetrahedrite. The entire performance should be passionate. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the ofing scale and in the ehim rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play legato.

• The singer always does the main melody.
• The Fruity Lyric has the following structure: a verse and a chorus all repeated two times.
• The verse is at a walking pace, and it is to become louder and louder. The singer's voice covers its entire range.
• The chorus accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to be soft. The singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• 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 ehim rhythm is made from two patterns: the gad 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 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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