The Musicianly Pecan
The Musicianly Pecan is a devotional form of music originally devised by the human Kedu Geysercollapsed. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. The music is played on a estroslasu, a ozinat and a ceng. The musical voices bring melody, counterpoint and rhythm. The counterpoint melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to alternate tension and repose.
- The estroslasu always should be graceful. The voice stays in the nasal low register.
- The ozinat always provides the rhythm, should be delicate and adds fills.
- The ceng always should be spirited.
- The Musicianly Pecan has the following structure: a passage and an additional passage.
- The first simple passage is voiced by the melody of the estroslasu, the counterpoint of the ceng and the rhythm of the ozinat. The passage is extremely fast, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The estroslasu stays in the nasal low register and the ceng ranges from the strident low register to the raucous middle register. The passage has long phrases in the melody. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage. The passage is performed using the uthrogumat scale.
- The second simple passage is voiced by the melody of the ceng and the rhythm of the ozinat. The passage is consistently slowing, and it is to be moderately soft. The ceng stays in the raucous middle register. The passage has short phrases in the melody. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the shudash scale.
- Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
- As always, the uthrogumat hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named oxuskor and equanamsespe.
- The oxuskor tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The equanamsespe trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- As always, the shudash heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named deh and ithut.
- The deh tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
- The ithut tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
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