The Kapok of Mainlands

The Kapok of Mainlands is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Ipukom Chertdissolve the Fungus of Kangaroo-people originating in The Insignia of Socks. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a nesa and two zothoddazen. The musical voices cover melody, harmony and rhythm. The entire performance should be fiery, and it is to be very loud. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. The music is broadly layered with chords spanning the range. It is performed using the pethrebinpu scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to add fills, alternate tension and repose, modulate frequently and play legato.

• The singer always does the main melody. The voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The nesa always provides the rhythm.
• Each zothoddazen always does harmony. The voice uses its entire range from the rippling low register to the muddy high register.
• The Kapok of Mainlands has a simple structure: three to five unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is fast.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The pethrebinpu heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a perfect fifth and a major third. These chords are named equanamsespe and iquur.
• The equanamsespe pentachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The iquur trichord is the 9th, the 10th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.

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