The Flowery Bitter-Orange

The Flowery Bitter-orange is a form of music used during marches and military engagements 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 any composition of The Childhood of Interests while the music is played on a acam and a smcob. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance should be stately, and it is to become softer and softer. The melody and counterpoint both have short phrases throughout the form. Chords, seldom-used, are sparse -- intervals and single pitches are favored. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed using the iquur scale and in the sorot rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note, use mordents and play staccato.

• The acam always does the counterpoint melody.
• The smcob always does the main melody.
• The Flowery Bitter-orange has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a theme, a brief exposition of the theme and a recapitulation of the theme.
• The theme is slow. The smcob covers its entire range from the buzzy low register to the flat high register.
• The exposition is consistently slowing. The smcob ranges from the buzzy low register to the watery middle register.
• The recapitulation is consistently slowing. The smcob ranges from the buzzy low register to the watery middle register.
• 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 sorot rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x - - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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