The Rosy Cashews

The Rosy Cashews is a devotional form of music originating in The Avarice of Improving. 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 Doubtful Guestimate while the music is played on a uxuke and a gax. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance gradually slows as it comes to an end. The melody has mid-length phrases throughout the form. It is performed without preference for a scale and in the exusp rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to add fills, alternate tension and repose, modulate frequently and play legato.

• The singer always does the main melody and should perform sweetly.
• The uxuke always provides the rhythm and should be broad.
• The gax always provides the rhythm and should perform sweetly.
• The Rosy Cashews has a well-defined multi-passage structure: an introduction and a lengthy theme and one to two lengthy series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The introduction is to be moderately loud. The singer's voice ranges from the low register to the middle register. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The theme is to become louder and louder. The singer's voice stays in the low register. Only one pitch is ever played at a time in this passage.
• Each of the series of variations is to be in whispered undertones. The singer's voice covers its entire range. This passage features only melodic tones and intervals.
• The exusp rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into four bars in a 4-4-4-4 pattern. The beats are named ozu (spoken oz), dusmorabur (du), kulu (ku) and doram (do). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x - | x X x x | x - - - | - - x - |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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