The Sprig of Hazelnuts

The Sprig of Hazelnuts is a devotional form of music originating in The Curse of Clear-Garnets. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. One to four chanters recite any composition of The Tactical Thesis while the music is played on a geslang. The musical voices join in melody, counterpoint and harmony. The entire performance gradually slows as it comes to an end. The melody and counterpoint both have long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the gaxog scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play arpeggios and match notes and syllables.

• Each chanter always should be melancholic and is to become louder and louder.
• The geslang always should perform sweetly and is to be very loud. The voice uses its entire range from the even low register to the raucous high register.
• The Sprig of Hazelnuts has the following structure: a chorus and a verse.
• The chorus is voiced by the melody of the geslang and the counterpoint of the chanters. The geslang covers its entire range from the even low register to the raucous high register and each of the chanters' voices stays in the middle register. The passage is performed in the ozu rhythm.
• The verse is voiced by the melody of the chanters and the harmony of the geslang. Each of the chanters' voices stays in the high register and the geslang covers its entire range from the even low register to the raucous high register. The passage is performed in the doram rhythm. The passage should be performed using mordents.
• 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 gaxog heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named daxst and assna.
• The daxst tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The assna tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ozu rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into four bars in a 4-4-4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x - x | - x x - | - - - x | - x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The doram rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x | - x | x x | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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