The Instrumental Fisher-Berries

The Instrumental Fisher-berries is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Avarice of Improving. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Two speakers recite nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a gax. The musical voices are purely rhythmic. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the strob rhythm.

• Each speaker always should feel mysterious.
• The gax always should be spirited.
• The Instrumental Fisher-berries has the following structure: a passage and a lengthy coda.
• The simple passage is voiced by the speakers reciting nonsensical words and sounds. The passage is very fast, and it is to be very loud.
• The coda is voiced by the rhythm of the gax and the speakers reciting nonsensical words and sounds. The passage is extremely fast, and it is to become softer and softer.
• The strob rhythm is a single line with twenty-six beats divided into four bars in a 5-8-6-7 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - - - | - X - 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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