The Wholegrain Band

The Wholegrain Band is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Sightless Procedure. 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 ax. The entire performance is to be moderately loud. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale and in free rhythm.

• The ax always provides the rhythm and should evoke tears.
• The Wholegrain Band has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a first theme, an exposition of the first theme, a lengthy bridge-passage, a second theme, an exposition of the second theme and a synthesis of previous passages.
• The first theme is at a free tempo.
• The first exposition is slow.
• The bridge-passage is slow.
• The second theme is consistently slowing.
• The second exposition is slow.
• The synthesis gradually slows as it comes to an end.

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