The Fruity Muskmelon

The Fruity Muskmelon is a form of music used to commemorate important events originating in The Order of Lofts. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A speaker recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on three noket. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance should stress the rhythm. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the op rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes, play arpeggios and play staccato.

• Each noket always does the main melody. The voice uses its entire range from the strident low register to the raucous high register.
• The Fruity Muskmelon has the following structure: a lengthy passage and another one to two passages.
• The first simple passage is moderately fast, and it is to become softer and softer. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• Each of the second simple passages is twice the tempo of the last passage, and it is to be moderately soft. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• The op rhythm is made from three patterns: the iadok, the poqin and the oqua. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The iadok rhythm is a single line with nine beats divided into three bars in a 3-3-3 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x | x x X | x - x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The poqin rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into eight bars in a 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 pattern. The beats are named oti (spoken ot), nuod (nuo), ojip (oj) and qat (qa). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x - | x - - - | x X x x | x - x - | x X x x | x X - x | - - x - | - - - x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The oqua rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named ej (spoken ej) and at (at). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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