The Lentil of Pomegranites

The Lentil of Pomegranites is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Verbatim Brass. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Two speakers recite nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a karok. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance should be delicate, and it is to become louder and louder. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the sushet rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note, use grace notes, make trills and play rapid runs.

• Each speaker always plays staccato.
• The karok always does the main melody and plays staccato.
• The Lentil of Pomegranites has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a verse and a chorus all repeated two times.
• The introduction is at a free tempo. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range.
• The verse is slower than the last passage. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The chorus is slow. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage should be performed using arpeggios.
• The sushet rhythm is made from two patterns: the orramoth (considered the primary) and the rokul.
• The orramoth rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into five bars in a 5-7-9-7-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x x x x | - - x - - - - | x x x x - x x x'- | - x x - - - - | - - x - |
• where ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The rokul rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into eight bars in a 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - x | - x x - | x x - x | - - x'- | x x x - | x x x'x | x x x x | - x - - |
• where ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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