The Pistillate Bayberry

The Pistillate Bayberry is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Heart of Dripping. 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 wisem and a ejem. The musical voices join in melody, counterpoint and harmony. The entire performance is to be moderately soft. The melody has short phrases, while the counterpoint has long phrases throughout the form. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed using the furithali scale and in the pumdom rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes and play rapid runs.

• The wisem always does the main melody and should evoke tears.
• The ejem always should feel mysterious.
• The Pistillate Bayberry has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction, a brief theme, an exposition of the theme and a recapitulation of the theme.
• The introduction is voiced by the melody of the wisem and the counterpoint of the ejem. The passage is moderately fast. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available range.
• The theme is voiced by the melody of the wisem and the melody of the ejem. The passage is slow. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The exposition is voiced by the melody of the wisem and the melody of the ejem. The passage is extremely fast. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The recapitulation is voiced by the melody of the wisem and the harmony of the ejem. The passage is fast. This passage is richly layered with full chords making use of the available 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 furithali heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named oxuskor and equanamsespe.
• The oxuskor tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 8th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The equanamsespe tetrachord is the 1st, the 5th, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The pumdom rhythm is a single line with eighteen beats divided into six bars in a 3-3-3-3-3-3 pattern. 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.

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