The Ginkgo-Seed of Blueberries

The Ginkgo-seed of Blueberries is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Wavy Giant-Grouper. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on two vithu. The entire performance is to fade into silence. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. The music is broadly layered with chords spanning the range. It is performed in the oquino rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to freely adjust the beats.

• Each vithu always does the main melody and should be fiery.
• The Ginkgo-seed of Blueberries has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage is consistently slowing. The passage is performed using the emayethi scale.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, notes are named according to degree. The names are viceva (spoken vi), moro (mo), ebalo (eb), wonethu (wo), bolo (bo), ocaquica (oc) and slothepanine (slo).
• As always, the emayethi pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named izela and izeli.
• The izela trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The izeli trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The oquino rhythm is a single line with four beats divided into two bars in a 2-2 pattern. The beats are named kecace (spoken ke) and the (the). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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