The Tomatillo of Pineapples

The Tomatillo of Pineapples is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Curse of Clear-Garnets. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A chanter recites any composition of The Daredevil of Rhizomes while the music is played on one to four geslang. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The melody and counterpoint both have short phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the xuzestra scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to make trills and alternate tension and repose.

• The chanter always does the counterpoint melody and is to become louder and louder. The voice uses its entire range.
• Each geslang always does the main melody and is to be moderately loud. The voice ranges from the vibrating middle register to the raucous high register.
• The Tomatillo of Pineapples has the following structure: a brief chorus and a lengthy verse.
• The chorus should be forceful and is at a hurried pace. The passage is performed in free rhythm.
• The verse should feel heroic and is moderately paced. The passage is performed in the atosmosm rhythm.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are strob (spoken stro) and kestraruga (ke).
• As always, the xuzestra hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named zuxaz and bagurod.
• The zuxaz trichord is the 1st, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The bagurod tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The atosmosm rhythm is made from three patterns: the dosno (considered the primary), the alazgo and the exazgong. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The dosno rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The alazgo rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into eight bars in a 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 pattern. The beats are named zesnunsura (spoken ze) and buzsp (bu). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x | x - | x - | - x | x - | x - | - x | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The exazgong rhythm is a single line with eight beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - x x x - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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