The Wholegrain of Apples

The Wholegrain of Apples is a devotional form of music originating in The Diagnostic Grandparent. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A speaker recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a ocush and one to three jithru. The musical voices bring melody with harmony. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the uwakri scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes, use mordents and play staccato.

• The speaker always is to be loud.
• The ocush always does harmony and is to be loud.
• Each jithru always does the main melody, is to be soft and makes trills.
• The Wholegrain of Apples has the following structure: three to four unrelated passages and a brief coda.
• Each of the simple passages should be made expressively and slows and broadens. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The coda should be fiery and gradually slows as it comes to an end. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• 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 uwakri heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ohug and oruslumcopo.
• The ohug tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The oruslumcopo tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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