The Core of Guavas

The Core of Guavas 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. Three singers recite any composition of The Vinous Guava while the music is played on a zapiv and a sanlir. The musical voices cover melody, harmony and rhythm. The entire performance should be jumpy and is very fast. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Chords, seldom-used, are sparse -- intervals and single pitches are favored. It is performed using the ibalarek scale and in the oquil rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to syncopate, play legato and spread syllables over many notes.

• Each singer always does the main melody and is to be very soft. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The zapiv always does harmony and is to be soft.
• The sanlir always provides the rhythm and is to fade into silence.
• The Core of Guavas has a simple structure: a brief passage.
• 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 ibalarek heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named oxuskor and ithut.
• The oxuskor tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 6th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ithut tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 6th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The oquil rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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