The Compositional Choir

The Compositional Choir is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Obsidian of Apples. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. Two chanters recite The Crumbly Slaughterhouse. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the oquino rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note, play staccato and match notes and syllables.

• Each chanter always does the main melody, should feel tender and is to be soft. The voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The Compositional Choir has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a theme, an exposition of the theme and a recapitulation of the theme.
• The theme is slow.
• The exposition is consistently slowing.
• The recapitulation is slower than the last passage.
• The oquino rhythm is made from two patterns: the seyawi (considered the primary) and the uwame.
• The seyawi rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named mila (spoken mi) and ezococa (ez). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The uwame rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named cucecuse (spoken cu) and cowe (co). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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