The Sweetcorn of Blooming

The Sweetcorn of Blooming is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Dark-Tan Tribune. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a ekak. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the axod scale and in the ojip rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to make trills.

• The ekak always does the main melody and should bring a sense of motion.
• The Sweetcorn of Blooming has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction, a passage and another one to two passages possibly all repeated, a bridge-passage and a finale.
• The introduction accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to fade into silence. The ekak stays in the fragile low register.
• The first simple passage is very slow, and it is to be very loud. The ekak covers its entire range from the fragile low register to the raspy high register. The passage should be performed using staccato.
• Each of the second simple passages is consistently slowing, and it is to be loud. The ekak covers its entire range from the fragile low register to the raspy high register.
• The bridge-passage is at a hurried pace, and it is to become softer and softer. The ekak stays in the raspy high register.
• The finale is moderately paced, and it is to be loud. The ekak stays in the raspy high register.
• 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 axod hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 6th, the 7th, the 9th and the 11th.
• The ojip rhythm is made from two patterns: the oqua and the kotoq. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The oqua rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named ej (spoken ej) and at (at). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x |
• where x is a beat and | indicates a bar.
• The kotoq rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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