The Euphonious Bambara-Groundnut

The Euphonious Bambara-groundnut is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Lawmaker of Peanuts. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A speaker recites any composition of The Yellow-Zircon of Canyons while the music is played on one to four xahdessablos, a omng and one to four sorvengu. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance is at a free tempo. The melody and counterpoint both have mid-length phrases throughout the form. Pitches are densely packed in clusters as music moves from chord to chord. It is performed using the bushcirne scale and in the vope rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note.

• The speaker always should bring a sense of motion.
• Each xahdessablos always does the counterpoint melody and should be joyful. The voice stays in the delicate middle register.
• The omng always does the counterpoint melody and should be fiery.
• Each sorvengu always does the main melody and should perform with a light touch.
• The Euphonious Bambara-groundnut has a simple structure: three to four unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is to be moderately soft.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• 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 vope rhythm is made from two patterns: the bokem and the gad. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• 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.
• 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.

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