The Cotton-Boll of Cashew-Trees

The Cotton-boll of Cashew-trees is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Anav originating in The Grandparent of Tufts. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites any composition of The Yellow-Jasper Cherry-Trees. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the uwakri scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play rapid runs, alternate tension and repose and play arpeggios.

• The singer always does the main melody, should be fiery and is to fade into silence.
• The Cotton-boll of Cashew-trees has the following structure: a lengthy introduction and a passage.
• The introduction is slow. The singer's voice stays in the high register.
• The simple passage is very fast. The singer's voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• Scales are constructed from twelve notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• The uwakri pentatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning two perfect fourths. These chords are named ohural and othdo.
• The ohural trichord is the 1st, the 2nd and the 6th degrees of the semitone octave scale.
• The othdo trichord is the 8th, the 11th and the 13th (completing the octave) degrees of the semitone octave scale.

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