The Lemon of Music

The Lemon of Music is a devotional form of music originating in The Custom of Shoulders. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A speaker recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a ivish. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance should feel mournful. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed in the ithut rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to make trills and play staccato.

• The ivish always does the main melody.
• The Lemon of Music has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a theme and one to two series of variations on the theme.
• The introduction gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to become softer and softer. The passage is performed using the ohural scale.
• The theme gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to be moderately loud. The passage is performed without preference for a scale.
• Each of the series of variations is slower than the last passage, and it is to be soft. Each passage is performed using the oruslumcopo scale.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The ohural pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 4th, the 7th and the 9th.
• The oruslumcopo pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th, the 9th and the 12th.
• The ithut rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into eight bars in a 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | 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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