The Fruity Corymb

The Fruity Corymb is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Banded Funnel. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A chanter recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a cim and a netas. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. It is performed in the ster rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to make trills, modulate frequently and play arpeggios.

• The chanter always provides the rhythm, should be jumpy and is to be moderately soft. The voice uses its entire range.
• The cim always provides the rhythm, should perform expressively and is to become louder and louder.
• The netas always does the main melody, should be bright and is to become louder and louder.
• The Fruity Corymb has the following structure: three unrelated passages and a finale.
• Each of the simple passages is extremely fast. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. Each passage is performed using the toker scale. Each passage should be performed using mordents.
• The finale is at a free tempo. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. The passage is performed using the liloran scale.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. Every note is named. The names are tamosh (spoken ta), muzlom (mu), ozol (oz), mer (me), zulal (zu), kistek (ki), lesul (le), sak (sa), odulimozsen (od), nebulursed (ne), rokul (ro) and elomamar (el).
• The toker pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a tritone and a perfect fourth. These chords are named un and ong.
• The un trichord is the 1st, the 3rd and the 7th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The ong trichord is the 8th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The liloran hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a tritone and a perfect fourth. These chords are named kekorith and febamus.
• The kekorith trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 7th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The febamus tetrachord is the 8th, the 9th, the 10th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The ster rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into six bars in a 5-5-5-7-5-5 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x X - x - | - x X x'- | X x - x x | - x x - - - - | - x - x - | x - X'x - |
• where X marks an accented beat, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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