The Wine of Einkorn-Grains

The Wine of Einkorn-grains is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Soybean-Plant of Lobsters. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a toni and a ewemavipola. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. It is performed using the iwarivuli scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to syncopate and alternate tension and repose.

• The toni always does the main melody and should be fiery.
• The ewemavipola always provides the rhythm, should bring a sense of motion and adds fills. The voice ranges from the wispy middle register to the wavering high register.
• The Wine of Einkorn-grains has the following structure: a chorus and a lengthy verse.
• The chorus is very slow, and it is to be moderately soft. The toni stays in the heavy low register and the ewemavipola ranges from the wispy middle register to the wavering high register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The verse is extremely fast, and it is to be moderately loud. The toni covers its entire range from the heavy low register to the watery high register and the ewemavipola ranges from the wispy middle register to the wavering high register. Chords are packed close together in dense clusters in this passage.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-three notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are ifiyo (spoken if, 4th), izeli (iz, 9th), bone (bo, 10th), umamalu (um, 12th), emayethi (em, 14th), ithi (ith, 15th), seyawi (se, 18th), mila (mi, 20th) and ezococa (ez, 23rd).
• The iwarivuli hexatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 5th, the 9th, the 12th, the 16th and the 23rd.

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