The Pearl-Millet-Grain of Fruits

The Pearl-millet-grain of Fruits is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Justice of Potatoes. 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 wisat, a uganadi and a ceng. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance should bring a sense of motion and is very slow. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Pitches are densely packed in clusters as music moves from chord to chord. It is performed using the vuthrilsim scale and in the naccak rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes, use mordents, syncopate, alternate tension and repose and play staccato.

• The wisat always provides the rhythm. The voice ranges from the watery high register to the rugged top register.
• The uganadi always does the main melody. The voice ranges from the rich middle register to the wavering high register.
• The ceng always does the main melody and glides from note to note. The voice uses its entire range from the strident low register to the buzzy high register.
• The Pearl-millet-grain of Fruits has a simple structure: three to five unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is to be loud.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• As always, the vuthrilsim heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named deh and oruslumcopo.
• The deh tetrachord is the 1st, the 3rd, the 4th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The oruslumcopo tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The naccak rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beats are named vishages (spoken vi) and kungujith (ku). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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