The Fir-Cone of Citrons

The Fir-cone of Citrons is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Intrinsic Hemp-Stalk. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Two singers recite nonsensical words and sounds. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in the ewaralimeca rhythm.

• Each singer always does the main melody and should be delicate.
• The Fir-cone of Citrons has the following structure: an introduction and a passage.
• The introduction is at a walking pace, and it is to be very soft. Each of the singers' voices ranges from the middle register to the high register. The passage is performed using the moro scale.
• The simple passage gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to be loud. Each of the singers' voices stays in the low register. The passage is performed using the ebecari scale.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the moro hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named iwarivuli and izeli.
• The iwarivuli trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The izeli tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 6th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• As always, the ebecari pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named iwarivuli and ifiyo.
• The ifiyo trichord is the 1st, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ewaralimeca rhythm is made from two patterns: the slothepanine and the fewiyo. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The slothepanine rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beats are named feri (spoken fe) and uwame (uw). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | x - | x x | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The fewiyo rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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