The Chants of Fruit

The Chants of Fruit is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The System of Gorillas. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A chanter recites nonsensical words and sounds. The entire performance should sparkle and is very fast. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed in free rhythm.

• The chanter always does the main melody. The voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The Chants of Fruit has a simple structure: three to five unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is to fade into silence. Each passage is performed using the ohug scale.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The ohug pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 6th, the 11th, the 16th and the 23rd.

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