The Round-Lime of Drupes

The Round-lime of Drupes is a form of music used to commemorate important events originally devised by the dwarf Litek Pegunshackles. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A speaker recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a etosp and one to six tukxu. The musical voices bring melody with harmony. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the tekug scale and in free rhythm.

• The speaker always should feel mysterious.
• The etosp always does harmony and should feel mysterious.
• Each tukxu always does the main melody and should be delicate.
• The Round-lime of Drupes has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a lengthy passage, a lengthy bridge-passage and a finale.
• The simple passage is consistently slowing, and it is to be very loud. Each of the tukxu covers its entire range from the dark low register to the pure high register and the etosp stays in the wispy low register. This passage typically has some sparse chords.
• The bridge-passage is at a free tempo, and it is to fade into silence. Each of the tukxu stays in the dark low register and the etosp stays in the wispy low register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage should be composed and performed using glides.
• The finale is fast, and it is to be moderately loud. Each of the tukxu stays in the dark low register and the etosp stays in the wavering high register. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage should be composed and performed using locally improvisation. The passage should often include a falling-rising melody pattern with glides and always include a falling melody pattern with mordents and arpeggios.
• 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. After a scale is constructed, the root note of chords are named. The names are strob (spoken stro) and kestraruga (ke).
• As always, the tekug heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named nadu and assna.
• The nadu tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 6th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The assna tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

Events

• In late winter of 102, The Round-Lime of Drupes was created by the dwarf Litek Pegunshackles in Impermeabilityodiums