The Fruitful Wholegrain

The Fruitful Wholegrain is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Cylindrical Entity. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. Two chanters recite nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a koyd. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The melody has phrases of varied length, while the counterpoint has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the ituq scale and in the dote rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play staccato. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.

• The koyd always does the main melody.
• The Fruitful Wholegrain has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a lengthy passage, a bridge-passage and a finale.
• The simple passage is voiced by the melody of the koyd. The passage should stress the rhythm. This passage typically has some sparse chords.
• The bridge-passage is voiced by the melody of the koyd and the counterpoint of the chanters reciting The Theory of Citrons. The passage should be bright. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range.
• The finale is voiced by the melody of the chanters reciting nonsensical words and sounds and the melody of the koyd. The passage should be jumpy. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are dodap (spoken do, 1st), qahpa (qa, 2nd), oqua (oq, 4th) and ej (ej, 8th).
• As always, the ituq pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named kiteq and axod.
• The kiteq trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The axod trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The dote rhythm is made from two patterns: the kidoi (considered the primary) and the jed. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The kidoi rhythm is a single line with four beats divided into two bars in a 2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | x x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The jed rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beats are named dokot (spoken do), otep (ot) and qada (qa). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x X x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat and | indicates a bar.

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