The Nectarous Chestnuts

The Nectarous Chestnuts is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Impartial Great-White-Shark. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A chanter recites any composition of The Porous Hills. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the uwame rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes and match notes and syllables.

• The chanter always does the main melody. The voice uses its entire range.
• The Nectarous Chestnuts has a simple structure: a passage.
• The simple passage slows and broadens, and it is to be moderately soft.
• The uwame rhythm is made from two patterns: the wonethu and the ucame. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The wonethu rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into two bars in a 4-4 pattern. The beats are named bolo (spoken bo), ocaquica (oc), slothepanine (slo) and feri (fe). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x - | - X x x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The ucame rhythm is a single line with thirty-two beats divided into four bars in a 8-8-8-8 pattern. The beats are named ifiyo (spoken if), izeli (iz), bone (bo), umamalu (um), emayethi (em), ithi (ith), seyawi (se) and mila (mi). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - x x x x X x | x - - - x - - ! | - - - x - - x'- | - - x - - x - X |
• where ! marks the primary accent, X marks an accented beat, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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