The Sun-Berry-Plant of Hemp-Seeds

The Sun-berry-plant of Hemp-seeds is a devotional form of music originating in The Intrinsic Hemp-Stalk. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a dinola and three casethe. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance is moderately paced. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the pathethi rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use mordents, alternate tension and repose and play arpeggios.

• The dinola always does the main melody, should be lively and is to fade into silence.
• Each casethe always does the counterpoint melody, should be bright and is to be very loud.
• The Sun-berry-plant of Hemp-seeds has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a lengthy introduction, one to two lengthy passages and an additional passage possibly all repeated and a brief coda.
• The introduction has mid-length phrases in the counterpoint melody. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• Each of the first simple passages has mid-length phrases in the counterpoint melody. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The second simple passage has short phrases in the counterpoint melody. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• The coda has short phrases in the counterpoint melody. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The pathethi rhythm is made from two patterns: the cucecuse and the the. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The cucecuse rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named cowe (spoken co) and fi (fi). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x |
• where x is a beat and | indicates a bar.
• The the rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into eight bars in a 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 pattern. The beats are named teze (spoken te), oyathu (oy), slutha (slu) and yalona (ya). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | X - x x | x - - x | x - - - | x x X x | - - x - | x - - x | x - x X | - - x - |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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