The Rhythmic Buckwheat-Grain

The Rhythmic Buckwheat-grain is a form of music used for entertainment originally devised by the goblin Oxospesp Broad-Mindedfreeloaded. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Three singers recite any composition of The Sullen Emergence while the music is played on a xus. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the gaxog scale and in the ebramaz rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to make trills, locally improvise, modulate frequently and play staccato. From beginning to end, when improvising, artists should sometimes include a rising melody pattern with sharpened fifth degree as well as legato, sometimes include a falling melody pattern with glides and legato and always include a falling-rising melody pattern with arpeggios.

• Each singer always does the main melody, should perform expressively and is to fade into silence.
• The xus always provides the rhythm, should feel mournful, is to be very loud and adds fills.
• The Rhythmic Buckwheat-grain has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a theme and a series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The introduction is at a hurried pace. Each of the singers' voices stays in the low register.
• The theme is at a walking pace. Each of the singers' voices ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The series of variations accelerates as it proceeds. Each of the singers' voices covers its entire range.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. After a scale is constructed, notes are named according to degree. The names are obungasnu (spoken ob), strob (stro), kestraruga (ke), dot (do), obst (obst), omuslone (om) and gul (gu).
• The gaxog heptatonic scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named ozzok and xuzestra.
• The ozzok pentachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 4th, the 6th and the 8th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The xuzestra tetrachord is the 8th, the 10th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The ebramaz rhythm is made from two patterns: the xedludutoka (considered the primary) and the orustrur. The patterns are to be played in the same beat, allowing one to repeat before the other is concluded.
• The xedludutoka rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named dosno (spoken do) and luz (lu). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The orustrur rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into two bars in a 8-8 pattern. The beats are named snas (spoken sna), ulong (ul), exusp (ex), ozu (oz), dusmorabur (du), kulu (ku), doram (do) and ellusmesmuk (el). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x X - x - - | - x X x x x - - |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In late winter of 74, The Rhythmic Buckwheat-Grain was created by the goblin Oxospesp Broad-Mindedfreeloaded in Grinnedadulteries