The Blueberry of Blackberries

The Blueberry of Blackberries is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Turquoise of Revolutions. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a lustilok. The musical voices join in melody, counterpoint and harmony. The melody has long phrases, while the counterpoint has phrases of varied length throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the sak rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play arpeggios.

• The lustilok always does the main melody.
• The Blueberry of Blackberries has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a theme, a bridge-passage and a series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The theme is voiced by the melody of the lustilok and the counterpoint of the singer reciting any composition of The Puddingstone of Topsoils. The passage should be delicate and is at a walking pace, and it is to be soft. The lustilok ranges from the raucous low register to the fragile middle register and the singer's voice stays in the middle register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The bridge-passage is voiced by the melody of the lustilok and the counterpoint of the singer reciting any composition of The Ingenious Test. The passage should feel agitated and is at a hurried pace, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The lustilok ranges from the fragile middle register to the sparkling high register and the singer's voice stays in the middle register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The series of variations is voiced by the melody of the lustilok and the harmony of the singer reciting nonsensical words and sounds. The passage should feel mournful and is very fast, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. The lustilok ranges from the fragile middle register to the sparkling high register and the singer's voice covers its entire range. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage should be composed and performed using rapid runs.
• The sak rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into four bars in a 4-4-4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | X x - x | - - x - | x - - - | x x ! x |
• where ! marks the primary accent, X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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