The Nectarous Pecan

The Nectarous Pecan is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Worth Jobsheet. 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 boded. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale.

• The boded always provides the rhythm, should feel mournful and is to fade into silence.
• The Nectarous Pecan has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a lengthy introduction and a passage and another one to two passages possibly all repeated.
• The introduction is moderately paced. The passage is performed in the zulal rhythm.
• The first simple passage is moderately fast. The passage is performed in the vazast rhythm.
• Each of the second simple passages is twice the tempo of the last passage. Each passage is performed in free rhythm.
• The zulal rhythm is a single line with four beats divided into two bars in a 2-2 pattern. The beats are named kistek (spoken ki) and lesul (le). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The vazast rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 8-8-8-8 pattern. The beats are named mudesod (spoken mu), liloran (li), toker (to), madensham (ma), imkekir (imk), rekom (re), ozisash (oz) and tamosh (ta). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x x'x x - x x | - - x'- - - - - | - x - - x - - x | x x'x x x x - x |
• where ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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