The Flowery Plum

The Flowery Plum is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Chronic Barbarity. 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 digrabstux. The entire performance is to be very loud. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes.

• The digrabstux always does the main melody.
• The Flowery Plum has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage should feel agitated and is moderately fast. The passage is performed in the ellusmesmuk rhythm.
• The ellusmesmuk rhythm is made from two patterns: the xedludutoka and the obst. 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 beats are named dosno (spoken do), luz (lu), orustrur (or) and snas (sna). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The obst rhythm is a single line with twenty-seven beats divided into four bars in a 7-9-5-6 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - x x - x | - x x`- x x - x x | - x - x - | - x - x x - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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