The Blooming Windfall
The Blooming Windfall is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Straight Byword. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites any composition of The Vinous Guava. The entire performance should be passionate. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in the ibbekur rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play rapid runs and spread syllables over many notes.
- The singer always does the main melody and is to become louder and louder.
- The Blooming Windfall has the following structure: a lengthy verse and a chorus all repeated two times.
- The verse is moderately paced. The singer's voice stays in the middle register. The passage is performed using the uthrogumat scale.
- The chorus is very slow. The singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. The passage is performed using the sorot scale.
- Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Every note is named. The names are pumdom (spoken pu), dos (do), aheda (ah), ofing (of), ujel (uj), bushcirne (bu), emsor (ems), naccak (na), vishages (vi), kungujith (ku) and udal (ud).
- As always, the uthrogumat heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named equanamsespe and othdo.
- The equanamsespe tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The othdo tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 8th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- As always, the sorot hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named mushast and iquur.
- The mushast tetrachord is the 1st, the 6th, the 8th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The iquur trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The ibbekur rhythm is a single line with nine beats divided into three bars in a 3-3-3 pattern. The beats are named ocgothrom (spoken oc), ingdaspod (ing) and gad (ga). The beat is stressed as follows:
- | - x - | - x - | - x x |
- where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
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