The Fruitful Orchard

The Fruitful Orchard is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Mores of Exhorting. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Two speakers recite nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a sast and a min. The musical voices bring melody with harmony. The entire performance gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to be very soft. It is performed in the bushcirne rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to modulate frequently and play staccato.

• Each speaker always should bring a sense of motion.
• The sast always should be melancholic and plays rapid runs.
• The min always should be broad.
• The Fruitful Orchard has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a lengthy introduction and a theme, a bridge-passage and a series of variations on the theme.
• The introduction is voiced by the melody of the sast, the harmony of the min and the speakers reciting nonsensical words and sounds. The sast covers its entire range from the heavy low register to the buzzy high register. The passage has phrases of varied length in the melody. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the deh scale. The passage should be performed using mordents.
• The theme is voiced by the melody of the min, the harmony of the sast and the speakers reciting nonsensical words and sounds. The sast stays in the heavy low register. The passage has phrases of varied length in the melody. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the ohural scale.
• The bridge-passage is voiced by the melody of the sast, the melody of the min and the speakers reciting any composition of The Swashbuckling Booking. The sast stays in the heavy low register. The passage has long phrases in the melody. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed using the deh scale.
• The series of variations is voiced by the melody of the sast and the speakers reciting nonsensical words and sounds. The sast covers its entire range from the heavy low register to the buzzy high register. The passage has phrases of varied length in the melody. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage is performed using the oxuskor scale.
• Scales are constructed from fifteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-xx-x-x-x-xx-xxx-xx-xO, 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.
• The deh heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 4th, the 6th, the 9th, the 11th and the 13th.
• The ohural pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 9th, the 10th and the 13th.
• The oxuskor pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 6th, the 10th and the 12th.
• The bushcirne rhythm is a single line with twenty-five beats divided into five bars in a 5-5-5-5-5 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x - x - | - - x - - | x x x x x | x - - x x | x x x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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