The Flowery Winter-Melon

The Flowery Winter-melon is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Grandparent of Tufts. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites any composition of The Chestnut of Fruits. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed using the vuthrilsim scale and in the inal rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note and play staccato.

• The singer always does the main melody.
• The Flowery Winter-melon has the following structure: a lengthy introduction and three to four unrelated passages.
• The introduction should be made with feeling and is very fast, and it is to be soft. The singer's voice stays in the low register.
• Each of the simple passages should be made expressively and is consistently slowing, and it is to be moderately soft. The singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The vuthrilsim heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named equanamsespe and ithut.
• The equanamsespe tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd and the 6th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The ithut tetrachord is the 8th, the 9th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The inal rhythm is made from two patterns: the uthrogumat and the vishages. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The uthrogumat 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 vishages rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 8-8-8-8 pattern. The beats are named kungujith (spoken ku), udal (ud), xur (xu), ibbekur (ib), ocgothrom (oc), ingdaspod (ing), gad (ga) and anar (an). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x x x - x x x`| - - x - - - - - | x x'- - x'- x x | x x x x x - - - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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