The Apple of Peaches

The Apple of Peaches 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 melody has long phrases throughout the form. It is performed in the snas rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note and use mordents.

• The ogmen always does the main melody, should feel mysterious and is to be in whispered undertones.
• The Apple of Peaches has the following structure: a lengthy introduction and three to five unrelated passages.
• The introduction is at a hurried pace. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage. The passage is performed using the odo scale.
• Each of the simple passages is very slow. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals. Each passage is performed without preference for a 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 odo hexatonic scale is thought of as joined chords spanning a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth. These chords are named axslor and roxstat.
• The axslor tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 5th and the 15th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The roxstat tetrachord is the 15th, the 17th, the 22nd and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The snas rhythm is made from two patterns: the dosno (considered the primary) and the dot. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The dosno rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into four bars in a 4-4-4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | 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 dot 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 beat is stressed as follows:
• | - 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.

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