The Blooming Pepper-Plant

The Blooming Pepper-plant is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Funerary Malevolence. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on two sustbax. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the nadu scale and in the uturo rhythm.

• Each sustbax always does the main melody and should perform expressively.
• The Blooming Pepper-plant has the following structure: three unrelated passages and a finale.
• Each of the simple passages is at a free tempo, and it is to be moderately soft. Each passage has mid-length phrases in the melody.
• The finale is extremely fast, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. The passage has phrases of varied length in the melody.
• 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 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 uturo rhythm is a single line with twenty-three beats divided into three bars in a 6-9-8 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - x x X | - X x - x - x x - | x x ! - x - x - |
• where ! marks the primary accent, X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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