The Windy Moistness

The Windy Moistness is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of Romimi Larkearthen originally devised by the elf Eletha Glimmerblockades. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. The music is played on a amafi. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the lari scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play rapid runs.

• The amafi always does the main melody and should perform with a light touch.
• The Windy Moistness has the following structure: a theme and a lengthy series of variations on the theme.
• The theme is fast, and it is to be moderately soft. The amafi stays in the nasal low register. The passage is performed in the arile rhythm.
• The series of variations is extremely fast, and it is to be in whispered undertones. The amafi stays in the quavering high register. The passage is performed in free rhythm.
• 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. Preferred notes in the fundamental scale are named. The names are thuna (spoken thu, 1st), arazi (ar, 4th), fidale (fi, 7th) and tarathe (ta, 9th).
• As always, the lari hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named adi and fela.
• The adi tetrachord is the 1st, the 5th, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The fela trichord is the 1st, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The arile rhythm is made from two patterns: the ile and the cuthefi. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The ile rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into eight bars in a 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 pattern. The beats are named atha (spoken ath) and alo (al). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | x - | x x | x - | - x | - x | x - | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The cuthefi rhythm is a single line with four beats divided into two bars in a 2-2 pattern. The beats are named cede (spoken ce) and otoga (ot). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

Events

• In late autumn of 178, The Windy Moistness was created by the elf Eletha Glimmerblockades in Sheenchanneled in order to glorify her deity Romimi Larkearthen after praying to Romimi