The Melodic Peaches

The Melodic Peaches is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Moldy Bitter-Melon-Leaf. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a terisido and a noseme. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The melody and counterpoint both have short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the wonethu rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use mordents, make trills, play rapid runs and locally improvise.

• The terisido always does the main melody and should feel mournful.
• The noseme always should stress the rhythm. The voice uses its entire range from the focused low register to the sonorous high register.
• The Melodic Peaches has the following structure: an introduction and three to four brief unrelated passages.
• The introduction is voiced by the melody of the terisido. The passage gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to be moderately loud.
• Each of the simple passages is voiced by the melody of the terisido and the counterpoint of the noseme. Each passage is twice the tempo of the last passage, and it is to be in whispered undertones.
• The wonethu rhythm is made from two patterns: the mila and the ezococa. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The mila rhythm is a single line with fourteen beats divided into two bars in a 7-7 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - x x - X | - x - - X - x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The ezococa rhythm is a single line with thirty-one beats divided into four bars in a 7-8-9-7 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x X x x x`x | x - - - x X - x | x X`x x x`x - x - | x'x - x x x X |
• where X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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