The Blooming Paradise-Nut

The Blooming Paradise-nut is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Manageable Silt-Loam. 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 ecilero, a afiwemore, a fathadumele and a cutayulineli. The musical voices join in melody and counterpoint, harmony and rhythm. The entire performance should bring a sense of motion and is at a hurried pace, and it is to be very soft. The counterpoint melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed using the izela scale and in the feri rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes and syncopate.

• The ecilero always does the main melody.
• The fathadumele always does the main melody.
• The cutayulineli always provides the rhythm.
• The Blooming Paradise-nut has the following structure: a theme and a series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The theme is voiced by the melody of the ecilero, the melody of the fathadumele, the harmony of the afiwemore and the rhythm of the cutayulineli. The fathadumele stays in the slicing high register, the afiwemore ranges from the flat high register to the raucous top register and the cutayulineli covers its entire range. The passage has mid-length phrases in the melody. This passage typically has some sparse chords.
• The series of variations is voiced by the melody of the ecilero, the melody of the fathadumele, the counterpoint of the afiwemore and the rhythm of the cutayulineli. The fathadumele covers its entire range from the wispy low register to the slicing high register, the afiwemore ranges from the quavering low register to the flat high register and the cutayulineli stays in the crisp low register. The passage has phrases of varied length in the melody. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. Every note is named. The names are ucame (spoken uc), ifiyo (if), izeli (iz), bone (bo), umamalu (um), emayethi (em), ithi (ith), seyawi (se), mila (mi), ezococa (ez), ebecari (eb) and viceva (vi).
• The izela hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th, the 8th, the 10th and the 11th.
• The feri rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named uwame (spoken uw) and cucecuse (cu). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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