The Music of Cucumbers

The Music of Cucumbers is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Meritorious Bowline. 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 oborowe. The entire performance should be made with feeling. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the iwarivuli scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to locally improvise. From beginning to end, when improvising or composing, artists should often include a falling melody pattern with sharpened fourth degree as well as trills, rapid runs and staccato, always include a rising-falling melody pattern with mordents and trills, often include a rising melody pattern with flattened second degree as well as trills and rapid runs and sometimes include a falling-rising melody pattern with sharpened fifth degree on the fall as well as trills, rapid runs and legato.

• The oborowe always does the main melody.
• The Music of Cucumbers has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction, a first theme, an exposition of the first theme, a second theme, an exposition of the second theme and a lengthy synthesis of previous passages.
• The introduction is at a hurried pace, and it is to fade into silence.
• The first theme slows and broadens, and it is to fade into silence.
• The first exposition gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to become softer and softer.
• The second theme is consistently slowing, and it is to become louder and louder.
• The second exposition is very slow, and it is to become louder and louder.
• The synthesis accelerates as it proceeds, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft.
• 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 iwarivuli pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 13th, the 17th and the 21st.

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