The Chant Pearl-Millet-Grain of Coffee-Beans

The Chant-Pearl-millet-grain of Coffee-beans is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Hubristic Cohort. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites any composition of The Ineligible Responsibilities while the music is played on three ipukom. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is to be moderately loud. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the oxuskor scale and in the anar rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to modulate frequently.

• The singer always provides the rhythm and should be melancholic. The voice uses its entire range.
• Each ipukom always does the main melody and should be strong. The voice stays in the raucous middle register.
• The Chant-Pearl-millet-grain of Coffee-beans has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage is very fast.
• 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 oxuskor pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 7th, the 10th, the 14th and the 16th.
• The anar rhythm is made from two patterns: the bushcirne and the xathrato. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The bushcirne rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into two bars in a 4-4 pattern. The beats are named emsor (spoken ems), naccak (na), vishages (vi) and kungujith (ku). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - - | - x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The xathrato rhythm is a single line with nine beats divided into three bars in a 3-3-3 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x x | x x x | x - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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