The Paradise-Nut of Pecans

The Paradise-nut of Pecans 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 any composition of The White-Opal of Pineapple-Opals while the music is played on a odad. The musical voices are joined in melody. The entire performance should feel mournful. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the ezok rhythm.

• The odad always does the main melody.
• The Paradise-nut of Pecans has the following structure: a lengthy theme and a brief series of variations on the theme.
• The theme is very slow, and it is to be loud. This passage typically has some sparse chords. The passage should be composed and performed using mordents.
• The series of variations is consistently slowing, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The ezok rhythm is made from three patterns: the poqin, the kot and the oqua. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• 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 kot rhythm is a single line with five beats. The beats are named toad (spoken toa), paciyq (pa), oaf (oaf), ted (te) and qeqok (qe). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | 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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