The Lentil of Nectars

The Lentil of Nectars is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Indispensable Tubes. 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 oril. The entire performance is to fade into silence. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the tigir rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to modulate frequently and play staccato.

• The oril always does the main melody. The voice ranges from the muddy low register to the brittle middle register.
• The Lentil of Nectars has the following structure: a chorus and a lengthy verse all repeated two times.
• The chorus should be spirited and is slow. This passage typically has some sparse chords.
• The verse should be made with a light touch and is at a hurried pace. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• The tigir rhythm is made from two patterns: the ozol (considered the primary) and the sek.
• The ozol rhythm is a single line with eight beats. The beats are named mer (spoken me), zulal (zu), kistek (ki), lesul (le), sak (sa), odulimozsen (od), nebulursed (ne) and rokul (ro). 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 sek rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beats are named ibmas (spoken ib) and ster (ste). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x'- | x'- | x - | - x`|
• where ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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