The Petal of Wholegrains

The Petal of Wholegrains is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Fallacious Nightwing of Ridges. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. One to four chanters recite any composition of The Paradox of Mooting while the music is played on a uze. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance is consistently slowing, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. The melody and counterpoint both have phrases of varied length throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use grace notes and locally improvise.

• Each chanter always does the main melody, should be passionate and plays staccato. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The uze always does the counterpoint melody and should be stately. The voice ranges from the muddy middle register to the rippling high register.
• The Petal of Wholegrains has a simple structure: three to five lengthy unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is performed using the gaxog scale and in the uranstrostru rhythm. Each passage should always include a falling melody pattern with arpeggios.
• Scales are constructed from thirteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-x-x-x-x--xxx-x-x-x-xO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The gaxog pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 8th, the 11th and the 13th.
• The uranstrostru rhythm is made from two patterns: the roxstat (considered the primary) and the dusmorabur. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The roxstat rhythm is a single line with nine beats divided into three bars in a 3-3-3 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 dusmorabur rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named kulu (spoken ku), doram (do), ellusmesmuk (el) and langkaz (la). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x'- - |
• where ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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