The Acorn of Citrons

The Acorn of Citrons is a devotional form of music 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. A chanter recites nonsensical words and sounds. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the desle scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to alternate tension and repose.

• The chanter always does the main melody and should be stately.
• The Acorn of Citrons has a well-defined multi-passage structure: a theme, an exposition of the theme, a bridge-passage and a recapitulation of the theme.
• The theme is at a free tempo, and it is to be moderately soft. The chanter's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The exposition is consistently slowing, and it is to be moderately soft. The chanter's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The bridge-passage is at a walking pace, and it is to be very loud. The chanter's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The recapitulation is at a free tempo, and it is to be moderately soft. The chanter's voice covers its entire range.
• 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 desle heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named ohural and ithut.
• The ohural tetrachord is the 1st, the 5th, the 6th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ithut tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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