The Ripe White-Millet-Grain

The Ripe White-millet-grain is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Intrinsic Hemp-Stalk. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a ivini. The entire performance is to be very loud. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the ezococa scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play rapid runs.

• The ivini always does the main melody and should be grand.
• The Ripe White-millet-grain has the following structure: a theme and one to two series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The theme is at a free tempo. The ivini stays in the crisp low register.
• Each of the series of variations slows and broadens. The ivini covers its entire range.
• 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 ezococa hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ipila and bone.
• The ipila trichord is the 1st, the 10th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The bone tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 8th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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