The Orange of Peduncles

The Orange of Peduncles is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Diagnostic Grandparent. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites any composition of The Paramount Ruin while the music is played on two hotiquicadi, a tuxet and a ezine. The musical voices cover melody, harmony and rhythm. The entire performance should be spirited and accelerates as it proceeds. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the iquur scale.

• The singer always provides the rhythm. The voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• Each hotiquicadi always does the main melody and locally improvises. The voice stays in the raspy high register.
• The tuxet always does harmony.
• The ezine always does the main melody.
• The Orange of Peduncles has the following structure: a verse and a chorus possibly all repeated.
• The verse is to be very soft. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage is performed in the imesathi rhythm.
• The chorus is to be soft. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed in free rhythm.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the iquur hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ohug and othdo.
• The ohug tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The othdo trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The imesathi rhythm is made from two patterns: the pumdom (considered the primary) and the uthrogumat.
• The pumdom rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named dos (spoken do) and aheda (ah). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The uthrogumat rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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