The Tone of Pecans

The Tone of Pecans is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Episodic Miscreant. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a rugud and a eslum. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance should feel mournful. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the assna scale and in the dusmorabur rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to add fills.

• The rugud always provides the rhythm.
• The eslum always does the main melody. The voice ranges from the slicing middle register to the ringing high register.
• The Tone of Pecans has a simple structure: three to five unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft.
• 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.
• As always, the assna heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named zuxaz and bagurod.
• The zuxaz tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The bagurod tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 6th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The dusmorabur 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 - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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