The Graniferous Lilac

The Graniferous Lilac is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Worth Jobsheet. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites any composition of The Descriptive Cashew-Apple while the music is played on a mathish. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is at a free tempo. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the ong scale and in the ozol rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to make trills and modulate frequently.

• The singer always provides the rhythm and should perform sweetly. The voice stays in the low register.
• The mathish always does the main melody and should feel mournful. The voice ranges from the rugged low register to the gentle middle register.
• The Graniferous Lilac has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage is to start loud then be immediately soft.
• Scales are constructed from fifteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-xx-x-x-x-xxx-xx-x-xxO, 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 ong 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 10th, the 11th and the 13th.
• The ozol rhythm is a single line with twenty-one beats divided into seven bars in a 3-3-3-3-3-3-3 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x'| - x - | x - x | x x'x`| - x x | - - x | - x - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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