The Wholegrain Musics

The Wholegrain Musics is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The System of Gorillas. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. Two speakers recite The Sardonyx Selenite while the music is played on a sudzurabuqua. The musical voices are purely rhythmic. The entire performance should stress the rhythm. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the oquil rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to add fills.

• The sudzurabuqua always provides the rhythm.
• The Wholegrain Musics has the following structure: one to two brief passages and another one to two lengthy passages.
• Each of the first simple passages slows and broadens, and it is to be moderately soft. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• Each of the second simple passages is at a free tempo, and it is to be very loud. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• The oquil rhythm is made from three patterns: the vishages, the pethrebinpu and the desle. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The vishages rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beats are named kungujith (spoken ku), udal (ud), xur (xu) and ibbekur (ib). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The pethrebinpu rhythm is a single line with twenty-six beats divided into five bars in a 5-5-4-6-6 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - - - - | - - - - x | - x x - | - x - x`- x | - - - x - - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The desle rhythm is a single line with twenty-four beats divided into five bars in a 2-4-7-5-6 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | - x x x | x x x x - x x | - - x x - | x x'x x - x'|
• where ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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