The Ripe Guavas

The Ripe Guavas is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Custom of Shoulders. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a ucornar and a beto. The musical voices are joined in melody. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the dos rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note and modulate frequently.

• The ucornar always does the main melody and should perform expressively.
• The beto always does the main melody and should be delicate.
• The Ripe Guavas has the following structure: a lengthy theme and one to two series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The theme is at a hurried pace, and it is to fade into silence. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• Each of the series of variations is very slow, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• The dos rhythm is made from two patterns: the pethrebinpu (considered the primary) and the uthrogumat. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The pethrebinpu rhythm is a single line with thirty-one beats divided into four bars in a 8-11-5-7 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x - - - x - | x x - - x x - x x - - | x - - x x | x x x - x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The uthrogumat rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into four bars in a 4-4-4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - x | x x x x | - - x x | x x x x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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