The Pearl-Millet-Grain of Panicles

The Pearl-millet-grain of Panicles is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Polish of Choirs. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on two ovalraz. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the rekom scale and in the sushet rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to use mordents and play arpeggios.

• Each ovalraz always does the main melody and should be vigorous. The voice stays in the strident low register.
• The Pearl-millet-grain of Panicles has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage is at a free tempo, and it is to be moderately loud.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the rekom hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named vallal and febamus.
• The vallal tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The febamus trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The sushet rhythm is made from two patterns: the muzlom and the ozol. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The muzlom rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The ozol rhythm is a single line with five beats. The beats are named mer (spoken me), zulal (zu), kistek (ki), lesul (le) and sak (sa). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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