The Nut of Fruits

The Nut of Fruits is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Tireless Megalomania. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a exzaku, a smadom and a emxu. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is moderately fast. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the barulo scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to alternate tension and repose.

• The singer always does the main melody, should perform with feeling and plays staccato.
• The exzaku always provides the rhythm, should be melancholic and adds fills.
• The smadom always provides the rhythm, should be bright and adds fills.
• The emxu always provides the rhythm, should be bright and plays staccato.
• The Nut of Fruits has the following structure: a lengthy theme and a series of variations on the theme.
• The theme is to start loud then be immediately soft. The singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage should be performed using legato.
• The series of variations is to become softer and softer. The singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. 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 eleven notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are kestraruga (spoken ke, 1st), dot (do, 6th) and obst (obst, 7th).
• As always, the barulo heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named nadu and sastospu.
• The nadu tetrachord is the 1st, the 5th, the 6th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The sastospu tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 9th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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