The Satyric Bitter-Melon-Vine

The Satyric Bitter-melon-vine is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Ebugated originating in The System of Gorillas. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites The Sardonyx Selenite while the music is played on a opek. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance should be delicate. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. The music is broadly layered with chords spanning the range. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes, use mordents and alternate tension and repose.

• The singer always provides the rhythm and plays staccato. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The opek always does the main melody.
• The Satyric Bitter-melon-vine has a simple structure: three to five lengthy unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is moderately paced, and it is to be very soft. Each passage is performed using the shudash scale.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The shudash heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 7th, the 9th, the 13th, the 17th and the 18th.

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