The Vinous Cashews

The Vinous Cashews is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Glamorous Asparagus. The rules of the form are applied by composers to produce individual pieces of music which can be performed. Two speakers recite The Demonstrable Tactics while the music is played on a vameri and a inema. The musical voices bring melody and counterpoint. The entire performance should be fiery. The melody and counterpoint both have short phrases throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the uwame scale and in the the rhythm. Throughout, when possible, composers and performers are to use grace notes and make trills.

• The vameri always does the main melody.
• The inema always does the counterpoint melody.
• The Vinous Cashews has the following structure: a lengthy verse and a brief chorus.
• The verse is very slow, and it is to start loud then be immediately soft.
• The chorus is slower than the last passage, and it is to become louder and louder.
• Scales are constructed from twenty-four notes spaced evenly throughout the octave. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The uwame heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords spanning a tritone and a perfect fourth. These chords are named oyifolewe and umamalu.
• The oyifolewe tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 7th and the 13th degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The umamalu tetrachord is the 15th, the 19th, the 21st and the 25th (completing the octave) degrees of the quartertone octave scale.
• The the rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x X |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat and | indicates a bar.

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