The Eggplant-Fruit of Cherries

The Eggplant-fruit of Cherries is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Diagnostic Grandparent. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Two singers recite The Panicky Avocado-Trees while the music is played on a jithru, a cescu and a cit. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Chords, seldom-used, are sparse -- intervals and single pitches are favored. It is performed using the furithali scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note.

• Each singer always provides the rhythm and should be melancholic.
• The jithru always does the main melody and should be melancholic.
• The cescu always does the main melody and should evoke tears.
• The cit always provides the rhythm and should be spirited.
• The Eggplant-fruit of Cherries has the following structure: one to two lengthy passages and another one to two passages possibly all repeated.
• Each of the first simple passages is moderately fast, and it is to be very soft. The cescu ranges from the muddy low register to the strident middle register and each of the singers' voices ranges from the low register to the middle register. Each passage is performed in the gad rhythm.
• Each of the second simple passages is consistently slowing, and it is to be loud. The cescu stays in the strident middle register and each of the singers' voices stays in the low register. Each passage is performed in the pumdom rhythm. Each passage should be performed using grace notes.
• 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 furithali hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ohural and equanamsespe.
• The ohural tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The equanamsespe trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The gad rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x |
• where x is a beat and | indicates a bar.
• 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.

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