The Fruity Desert-Limes

The Fruity Desert-limes is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Meritorious Bowline. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A chanter recites nonsensical words and sounds. The entire performance should be graceful, and it is to be very soft. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the ucame scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to glide from note to note, use mordents and modulate frequently.

• The chanter always does the main melody. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The Fruity Desert-limes has the following structure: one to two passages and an additional passage possibly all repeated.
• Each of the first simple passages is at a walking pace. Each passage is performed in the ebecari rhythm.
• The second simple passage gradually slows as it comes to an end. The passage is performed in free rhythm.
• 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 ucame heptatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 3rd, the 7th, the 10th, the 14th, the 17th and the 19th.
• The ebecari 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.

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