The Walnut of Rice

The Walnut of Rice is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Conglomerate of Hamlets. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A chanter recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on two hebi and two ulemi. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is extremely fast, and it is to become louder and louder. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. It is performed using the shudash scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note and alternate tension and repose.

• The chanter always does the main melody and should be energetic.
• Each hebi always provides the rhythm and should feel heroic.
• Each ulemi always should perform with feeling. The voice stays in the raucous low register.
• The Walnut of Rice has the following structure: an introduction and three unrelated passages.
• The introduction is voiced by the melody of the chanter reciting The Magpie of Expiring, the rhythm of the hebi and the rhythm of the ulemi. The chanter's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register and each of the ulemi stays in the raucous low register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage is performed in free rhythm.
• Each of the simple passages is voiced by the melody of the chanter reciting nonsensical words and sounds and the rhythm of the hebi. The chanter's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. Each passage is performed in the restro rhythm.
• 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. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are pumdom (spoken pu) and dos (do).
• As always, the shudash hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named mushast and iquur.
• The mushast trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The iquur tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The restro rhythm is made from two patterns: the ujel and the aheda.
• The ujel rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named bushcirne (spoken bu) and emsor (ems). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The aheda rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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