The Peduncular Bananas

The Peduncular Bananas is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Turquoise of Revolutions. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a ifothseth and a lustilok. The musical voices are joined in melody. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the ong scale.

• The ifothseth always does the main melody and should feel mournful.
• The lustilok always does the main melody and should perform expressively.
• The Peduncular Bananas has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a passage and an additional lengthy passage possibly all repeated.
• The introduction is at a free tempo, and it is to be moderately loud. The ifothseth ranges from the rough middle register to the harsh top register and the lustilok ranges from the fragile middle register to the sparkling high register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage is performed in free rhythm.
• The first simple passage is fast, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The ifothseth ranges from the pure high register to the harsh top register and the lustilok ranges from the raucous low register to the fragile middle register. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed in the odulimozsen rhythm.
• The second simple passage is very slow, and it is to fade into silence. The ifothseth ranges from the rough middle register to the pure high register and the lustilok ranges from the fragile middle register to the sparkling high register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage is performed in the mer rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-two notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xxx-xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The ong pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 12th, the 16th and the 20th.
• The odulimozsen rhythm is made from two patterns: the zulal (considered the primary) and the afonan. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The zulal rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The afonan rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beats are named stat (spoken sta) and vazast (va). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | x - | x - | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The mer rhythm is a single line with thirty-one beats divided into five bars in a 4-5-6-9-7 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - x | - - - - x | X - x x - x | x x X - - x - - - | X x x - - x - |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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