The Affable Lull

The Affable Lull is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Ita originating in The Irrefutable Wills. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites any composition of The Catalyst-Female of Oxbows. The entire performance is to become louder and louder. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the oq scale and in the oti rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to glide from note to note and play legato.

• The singer always does the main melody, should feel mournful and modulates frequently.
• The Affable Lull has the following structure: a passage and an additional passage possibly all repeated.
• The first simple passage is slow. The singer's voice stays in the middle register.
• The second simple passage is very slow. The singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the oq hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named iqap and toki.
• The iqap tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 8th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The toki trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The oti rhythm is a single line with two beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x |
• where x is a beat and | indicates a bar.

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