The Cymose Caper-Fruit

The Cymose Caper-fruit is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Avarice of Improving. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a uxuke, a matu, a letespo and a kan. The musical voices cover melody, harmony and rhythm. The entire performance is to be soft. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Throughout, when possible, performers are to make trills, play arpeggios and play staccato.

• The uxuke always provides the rhythm and should perform expressively.
• The matu always should be passionate.
• The letespo always provides the rhythm and should feel agitated.
• The kan always does the main melody and should be bright.
• The Cymose Caper-fruit has the following structure: an introduction and a lengthy passage.
• The introduction is voiced by the melody of the kan, the rhythm of the uxuke, the rhythm of the matu and the rhythm of the letespo. The passage is fast. The kan stays in the sonorous low register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the uturo scale and in free rhythm.
• The simple passage is voiced by the melody of the kan, the harmony of the matu, the rhythm of the uxuke and the rhythm of the letespo. The passage accelerates as it proceeds. The kan covers its entire range from the sonorous low register to the heavy high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage is performed using the nadu scale and in the kestraruga rhythm.
• Scales are constructed from nineteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xx-x-xxxx-xxxxx-xx-xxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. After a scale is constructed, notes are named according to degree. The names are masul (spoken ma), axslor (ax), bagurod (ba), sastospu (sa), assna (as), xuzestra (xu) and roxstat (ro).
• The uturo pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 11th, the 14th and the 16th.
• The nadu pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 10th, the 12th and the 19th.
• The kestraruga rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | x - | x x | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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