Instructions

Alternate sections are marked Say and Play. The Say sections are spoken or sung to an improvised tune in a stentorian and condescending manner, as a traffic court judge lecturing a recidivist speeder. Read as though the text makes perfect sense, even though its grammar and meaning may make sudden, unexpected turns.

The Play sections use an ordinary five-line staff with oval note heads () interspersed with diamond () and cross () note heads. Play in a manner that contrasts with the lecturer's attitude. Be mocking or solicitous or calm or resigned or anything else appropriate.

• I've used bar lines set off groups of notes. Groups should be observed by accent, phrasing, pauses or some other way.
• The cross () indicates some non-standard noise, like a multiphonic or a strum behind the bridge or a dropped drumstick or a cheese-grater arpeggio or something else. Use your imagination.
• The diamond () indicates a note that is one semitone (in either direction) different from the preceding note.
• Rhythm, tempo and dynamics are entirely up to the performer. Since no clef is specified, you can pick that as well.

You can play in concert with other performers, who may play other versions of this piece, or other any other materials, composed or improvised. When playing with others, the Say sections should be performed as disruptively as possible, and the Play sections should be played sensitively, with utmost regard to enhancing the performance of the other players.

Score

Say: And you went on to suggest a couple of possibilities, one of length, and you've done nothing to do so.

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Say: It's not your choice. History has already portrayed you as someone who uses two different names?

Play:

Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

Play:

Say: Incorrect, though after the context has been removed, it's hard for readers to determine that.

Play:

Say: "That many violins."

Play:

Say: I invite you to check out the "too long" excuse, given that I also mentioned the length of the time.

Play:

Say: Why should it be the other way around? The music itself is inanimate; it won't have any reaction to how the variation jumps from soloist to soloist or section to section as in the same moment as the famous Rachmaninoff piano work, with the variations on that theme are passed around from soloist to soloist or section to section, just as in Bartok (note that the concerto involves the orchestra, so the powers that be do not use strings constantly. What most composers over the centuries have done is biased by the fact that my response is appearing there as well.

Play:

Say: Actually, I've spelled them correctly, and some of those uses have been in the OS/2 newsgroups and try to spread their FUD that are the only two possibilities.

Play:

Say: Now would you care to try for "how" or "why"?

Play:

Say: That's not the one who admitted to posting "bait".

Play:

Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

Play:

Say: Yet another name to add to the set of variations that bear little resemblance to one another.

Play:

Say: Whose tradition? Mozart's Symphony No. 8 is a lie. My name has been said to have dictated the length of another piece that is based on the concert band.

Play:

Say: That isn't "a" word, and I'm also already familiar with an example of one.

Play:

Say: No, he isn't. Is that how you intend to explain your crossposting?

Play:

Say: Unnecessary, given that you are mistaken, and you turned on you.

Play:

Say: So, what's wrong or bad about one worders?

Play:

Say: Illogical; we haven't performed the Warren Barker arrangement of "Phantom of the number of times you've played it.

Play:

Say: Incorrect, though after the context has been said to have dictated the length of the "Fantasy Variations".

Play:

Say: And how many still perform regularly?

Play:

Say: Sorry to disappoint you.

Play:

Say: It was Doe, and now you, that have posted responses that are the nuisance.

Play:

Say: That's a single instrument, not an orchestra. It's logical to assume that the brass bands are extremely popular and fairly well represented in American record stores, but you still talking about "Bolero"?

Play:

Say: What alleged "cards"?

Play:

Say: Evidence that you could simply dismiss an answer in the discussion has been "baiting" me.

Play:

Say: That would be sufficient to justify the title.

Play:

Say: That would be you.

Play:

Say: Just ten lines up: "OK, since tried to help and you haven't said anything about American composers, choosing instead to discuss the issue that I was discussing involving American composers, thus it is too long for its own good. Have you considered the possibility that it is too long for its own good. In other words, I have substantiated.

Play:

Say: You've had plenty of time to post bait, Doe.

Play:

Say: I am.

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