The Fruitful Pineapple

The Fruitful Pineapple is a devotional form of music originating in The Ceaseless Fingertip-Dominator. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a oquanic. The entire performance is to fade into silence. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use mordents, play arpeggios, play staccato and play legato.

• The oquanic always does the main melody and should be stately.
• The Fruitful Pineapple has the following structure: a theme and a series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The theme is at a free tempo. The oquanic covers its entire range from the floating low register to the fragile top register. The passage has long phrases in the melody. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage is performed using the uwakri scale and in the ijaspugolet rhythm. The passage should be composed and performed using glides.
• The series of variations is moderately paced. The oquanic ranges from the sparkling middle register to the fragile top register. The passage has mid-length phrases in the melody. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage is performed using the xathrato scale and in free rhythm. The passage should be composed and performed using glides.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The uwakri heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a perfect fifth and a major third. These chords are named ohural and ithut.
• The ohural pentachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The ithut trichord is the 9th, the 10th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The xathrato heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a perfect fifth and a major third. These chords are named oruslumcopo and ithut.
• The oruslumcopo pentachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The ijaspugolet rhythm is made from three patterns: the anar, the xur and the sorot. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The anar 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 - x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The xur rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named ibbekur (spoken ib), ocgothrom (oc), ingdaspod (ing) and gad (ga). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The sorot 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.

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