The Sprig of Bolls

The Sprig of Bolls is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Infamy of Pheromones. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Two singers recite any composition of The Privacy of Camouflaging while the music is played on one to two umasposmku. The musical voices are joined in melody. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the gaxog scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note, play rapid runs, alternate tension and repose and match notes and syllables.

• Each singer always does the main melody and should evoke tears.
• Each umasposmku always does the main melody and should be passionate.
• The Sprig of Bolls has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and one to two lengthy passages and an additional brief passage.
• The introduction is extremely fast, and it is to become louder and louder. Each of the singers' voices ranges from the middle register to the high register and each of the umasposmku ranges from the pure low register to the wispy middle register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed in free rhythm. The passage should be performed using trills.
• Each of the first simple passages is slow, and it is to fade into silence. Each of the singers' voices ranges from the middle register to the high register and each of the umasposmku stays in the floating high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. Each passage is performed in the omuslone rhythm. Each passage should be performed using trills.
• The second simple passage is at a free tempo, and it is to be loud. Each of the singers' voices ranges from the low register to the middle register and each of the umasposmku covers its entire range from the pure low register to the floating high register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed in the xedludutoka rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from fifteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-xx-x-x-x-xxx-x-xx-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 gaxog heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 5th, the 8th, the 9th, the 11th and the 15th.
• The omuslone rhythm is a single line with twenty-nine beats divided into three bars in a 11-10-8 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x x X - x`- - - - | - ! x - - x x - - x | x x x x X x x x |
• where ! marks the primary accent, X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The xedludutoka rhythm is made from three patterns: the omuslone, the masul and the uturo. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The masul rhythm is a single line with eight beats. The beats are named axslor (spoken ax), bagurod (ba), sastospu (sa), assna (as), xuzestra (xu), roxstat (ro), tekug (te) and odo (od). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - - x - - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The uturo rhythm is a single line with four beats divided into two bars in a 2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | - x'|
• where ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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