The Fruity Citrons

The Fruity Citrons is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Episodic Miscreant. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a rugud. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale.

• The rugud always provides the rhythm and should be vigorous.
• The Fruity Citrons has a simple structure: three to four unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is at a free tempo, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. Each passage is performed in the buzsp rhythm.
• The buzsp rhythm is made from two patterns: the xedludutoka (considered the primary) and the odo. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The xedludutoka rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x X |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The odo rhythm is a single line with eight beats. The beats are named sangob (spoken sa), obungasnu (ob), strob (stro), kestraruga (ke), dot (do), obst (obst), omuslone (om) and gul (gu). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - - x - - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events