The Custard-Apple of Cherries

The Custard-apple of Cherries is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Meritorious Bowline. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a wamefade. The entire performance is to be very loud. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the oyifolewe scale and in the bolo rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note, use grace notes and play legato.

• The wamefade always does the main melody and should perform with skill.
• The Custard-apple of Cherries has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a lengthy introduction, three to five lengthy unrelated passages and a finale.
• The introduction is moderately paced. The wamefade covers its entire range from the muddy low register to the harsh high register.
• Each of the simple passages accelerates as it proceeds. The wamefade ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The finale is at a hurried pace. The wamefade ranges from the low register to the middle register. The passage should be performed using mordents.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-two notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xxxxxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The oyifolewe heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 6th, the 10th, the 13th, the 16th and the 17th.
• The bolo rhythm is made from two patterns: the umamalu (considered the primary) and the emayethi. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The umamalu rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x'- X x |
• where X marks an accented beat, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The emayethi rhythm is a single line with twenty-four beats divided into three bars in a 8-8-8 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x !'x - - - - - | - x - - - x - - | - x - X'- x - - |
• where ! marks the primary accent, X marks an accented beat, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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