The Peduncular Citron

The Peduncular Citron is a devotional form of music originating in The Temptation of Slobs. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a adbongdot, three alosm and a saton. The musical voices bring melody, counterpoint and rhythm. The entire performance slows and broadens, and it is to be moderately loud. The melody has long phrases, while the counterpoint has short phrases throughout the form. Chords, seldom-used, are sparse -- intervals and single pitches are favored. It is performed using the tekug scale and in the strob rhythm.

• The adbongdot always does the counterpoint melody. The voice uses its entire range from the fragile low register to the pure high register.
• Each alosm always provides the rhythm.
• The saton always does the main melody.
• The Peduncular Citron has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage should be fiery.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The tekug heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named uturo and assna.
• The uturo tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd and the 6th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The assna tetrachord is the 8th, the 10th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The strob rhythm is a single line with four beats divided into two bars in a 2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x | x x |
• where x is a beat and | indicates a bar.

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