The Catkin of Ginkgo-Seeds

The Catkin of Ginkgo-seeds is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Reprobate of Blustering. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a digraxal and a uxagordalkom. The musical voices are joined in melody. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. The music repeats for as long as necessary. Throughout, when possible, performers are to alternate tension and repose.

• The digraxal always does the main melody and should stress the rhythm.
• The uxagordalkom always does the main melody and should be broad. The voice uses its entire range from the raspy low register to the fragile high register.
• The Catkin of Ginkgo-seeds has a simple structure: a brief passage.
• The simple passage is very slow, and it is to be very soft. The passage is performed using the ozzok scale and in the reraspog rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-two notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxO, 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 ozzok pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 10th, the 15th and the 22nd.
• The reraspog rhythm is made from three patterns: the orustrur, the dosno and the barulo. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The orustrur rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | x - | x - | x x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The dosno rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 8-9-11-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x - - x - - | - - x - x x - - x | - - - x - x x x x - x | - - x x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The barulo rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beats are named odo (spoken od), sangob (sa) and obungasnu (ob). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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