The Hemp-Seed of Peanuts

The Hemp-seed of Peanuts is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Glumprong of Tongs. 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 ogmen. The entire performance should be made expressively and is moderately paced, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Chords, seldom-used, are sparse -- intervals and single pitches are favored. It is performed in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to play legato.

• The ogmen always does the main melody.
• The Hemp-seed of Peanuts has the following structure: an introduction and three to five unrelated passages.
• The introduction is performed using the barulo scale.
• Each of the simple passages is performed using the tekug scale.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The barulo pentatonic scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named uturo and bagurod.
• The uturo trichord is the 1st, the 9th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The bagurod tetrachord is the 15th, the 19th, the 20th and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The tekug hexatonic scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named axslor and bagurod.
• The axslor tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 5th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.

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