The Graniferous Peduncle

The Graniferous Peduncle is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Fleeting-Unification of Musing. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on two stur. The entire performance is to fade into silence. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the pethrebinpu scale and in the emsor rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to make trills, play arpeggios and play staccato.

• Each stur always does the main melody, should perform with a light touch and modulates frequently.
• The Graniferous Peduncle has the following structure: a theme and one to two series of variations on the theme.
• The theme is at a hurried pace.
• Each of the series of variations is half the tempo of the last passage.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are pumdom (spoken pu, 2nd) and dos (do, 8th).
• The pethrebinpu heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th and the 7th.
• The emsor rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into two bars in a 4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - - | x - x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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