The Vinous Cashews

The Vinous Cashews is a devotional form of music originating in The Empires of Endeavoring. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on a busha and a mogu. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is to be moderately soft. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Pitches are densely packed in clusters as music moves from chord to chord. The music repeats for as long as necessary. It is performed using the vuthrilsim scale. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes.

• The singer always provides the rhythm and should stress the rhythm. The voice ranges from the low register to the middle register.
• The busha always does the main melody and should perform with skill.
• The mogu always provides the rhythm and should perform expressively.
• The Vinous Cashews has a simple structure: three to four lengthy unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is very fast. Each passage is performed in the oquil rhythm.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance. Every note is named. The names are uthrogumat (spoken uthr), sorot (so), pumdom (pu), dos (do), aheda (ah), ofing (of), ujel (uj) and bushcirne (bu).
• As always, the vuthrilsim hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named oxuskor and oruslumcopo.
• The oxuskor tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 7th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The oruslumcopo trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The oquil rhythm is made from two patterns: the emsor (considered the primary) and the ibbekur. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The emsor rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into four bars in a 4-4-4-4 pattern. The beats are named naccak (spoken na), vishages (vi), kungujith (ku) and udal (ud). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x X'x | x x X - | x x x`X | - - - x |
• where X marks an accented beat, ` marks a beat as early, ' marks a beat as late, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The ibbekur rhythm is a single line with four beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x`- - - |
• where ` marks a beat as early, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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