The Pistillate Bayberries

The Pistillate Bayberries is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Avarice of Improving. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a gax. The entire performance is fast. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the zesnunsura rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to alternate tension and repose and play staccato.

• The gax always provides the rhythm and should sparkle.
• The Pistillate Bayberries has the following structure: three to four unrelated passages and a finale.
• Each of the simple passages is to be in whispered undertones.
• The finale is to be very loud.
• The zesnunsura rhythm is made from two patterns: the barulo (considered the primary) and the dosno. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The barulo rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named odo (spoken od) and sangob (sa). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The dosno rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named luz (spoken lu), orustrur (or), snas (sna) and ulong (ul). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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