The Pepper-Plant of Rhythms

The Pepper-plant of Rhythms is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Cobaltite of Redoubles. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on three bus. The entire performance is to become louder and louder. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the anon scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to alternate tension and repose, play arpeggios and play legato.

• Each bus always does the main melody.
• The Pepper-plant of Rhythms has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a theme, a bridge-passage and one to two series of variations on the theme, a bridge-passage and a finale.
• The theme should bring a sense of motion and is moderately paced.
• The first bridge-passage should feel mournful and gradually slows as it comes to an end.
• Each of the series of variations should be made expressively and slows and broadens.
• The second bridge-passage should be lively and is at a hurried pace.
• The finale should be made expressively and is extremely fast.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are kistek (spoken ki) and lesul (le).
• The anon heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 7th, the 10th, the 14th, the 16th and the 19th.

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