The Blooming Pine-Nuts

The Blooming Pine-nuts is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Dark-Tan Tribune. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a apo. The entire performance should build as it proceeds. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note and modulate frequently.

• The apo always does the main melody and is to be very loud. The voice uses its entire range from the heavy low register to the strident high register.
• The Blooming Pine-nuts has a simple structure: three to five unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is extremely fast. Each passage is performed using the uki scale.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are toki (spoken to, 1st), oq (oq, 5th) and dotip (do, 10th).
• The uki hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th, the 7th, the 9th and the 10th.

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