The Illuminating Peach

The Illuminating Peach is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Qaq originating in The Sightless Procedure. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. Three chanters recite The Dyes of Color. The entire performance should evoke tears. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the dotip scale and in the kot rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to alternate tension and repose.

• Each chanter always does the main melody.
• The Illuminating Peach has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a theme and one to two lengthy series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The introduction is fast, and it is to be very soft. Each of the chanters' voices stays in the low register.
• The theme is moderately fast, and it is to fade into silence. Each of the chanters' voices ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• Each of the series of variations slows and broadens, and it is to be very soft. Each of the chanters' voices ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The dotip hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th, the 6th, the 9th and the 12th.
• The kot rhythm is a single line with twenty-nine beats divided into four bars in a 10-9-5-5 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x`- - - - - - - - - | - X x x x - - x x | - x - x - | - x X x x |
• where X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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