The Round-Lime of Nutshells

The Round-lime of Nutshells is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Glamorous Asparagus. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A chanter recites any composition of The Creature of Walnuts. The entire performance slows and broadens. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the fi scale and in the oyathu rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to make trills and modulate frequently.

• The chanter always does the main melody and should feel mournful.
• The Round-lime of Nutshells has the following structure: a passage and a brief finale.
• The simple passage is to be very loud. The chanter's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The finale is to be moderately soft. The chanter's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The fi scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named ebecari and bone.
• The ebecari trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The bone trichord is the 15th, the 16th and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The oyathu rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 8-8-8-8 pattern. The beats are named slutha (spoken slu), yalona (ya), fewiyo (fe), equatino (eq), idara (id), afene (af), ominede (om) and irera (ir). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - - - - x - | - - - - x - - - | - - x - - - X x | x - x x x - - X |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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