The Fruitful Cherries

The Fruitful Cherries is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Funerary Malevolence. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds. The entire performance should be fiery. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in the assna rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play legato.

• The singer always does the main melody.
• The Fruitful Cherries has a well-defined multi-passage structure: three unrelated passages, a bridge-passage and a finale.
• Each of the simple passages is moderately paced, and it is to be moderately soft. The singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. Each passage is performed using the zuxaz scale.
• The bridge-passage accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to be loud. The singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. The passage is performed using the nadu scale.
• The finale is very fast, and it is to be very loud. The singer's voice covers its entire range. The passage is performed using the gaxog scale.
• Scales are constructed from twenty notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-xxxx-x-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The zuxaz heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 6th, the 11th, the 12th, the 16th and the 18th.
• The nadu pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 7th, the 14th and the 16th.
• The gaxog pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 6th, the 8th, the 14th and the 17th.
• The assna rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into four bars in a 4-4-4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x - | x - - x | - x X 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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