The Cymose Seeds

The Cymose Seeds is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Hubristic Cohort. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites any composition of The Crazy Pear. The entire performance is to fade into silence. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the deh scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to make trills.

• The singer always does the main melody.
• The Cymose Seeds has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a passage, a lengthy bridge-passage and a finale.
• The simple passage is consistently slowing. The singer's voice stays in the middle register.
• The bridge-passage should be melancholic and is fast. The singer's voice stays in the low register. The passage should be composed and performed using locally improvisation. The passage should always include a rising melody pattern with flattened second degree and sharpened fifth degree as well as glides and legato and sometimes include a falling-rising melody pattern with flattened third degree on the fall as well as rapid runs and staccato.
• The finale should evoke tears and is slow. The singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• Scales are constructed from eighteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xx-xxx-x-x-xxxxx-x-xxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are equanamsespe (spoken eq, 2nd), oruslumcopo (or, 4th), othdo (othd, 5th), ithut (ith, 6th), iquur (iq, 8th) and ibalarek (ib, 16th).
• The deh hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 7th, the 8th, the 10th, the 13th and the 17th.

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