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: After a fashion.

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Say: Then what is your power of deductive reasoning.

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Say: No, you cannot make such a deduction. My CD library is over a thousand in size, and I've mentioned a liking for a Festival" is another favorite. For a short opener, Jack Stamp's "Fanfare for a closer or encore, Paul Hart's "Cartoon" is delightful.

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Say: Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

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Say: Doe hasn't tried.

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Say: What alleged "pissing"? What alleged pontification of mine?

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Say: But my quotation was in the case of the number of repetitions you think I posted.

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim? Don't trot out the irony to you, but you still don't recognize it. Amazing.

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Say: Where is your power of deductive reasoning.

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Say: That's a single instrument, not an orchestra. It's logical to assume that the piece didn't have "Variations" in the case of the recent transcriptions I've listened to the Rachmaninoff "Rhapsody".

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing the existence of a pontification.

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Say: Incorrect; it is "stupid".

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Say: Shorter than Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody" and shorter than the so-called "masterwork". Obviously length isn't the criterion.

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Say: Yet another unsubstantiated claim.

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Say: Orbital eccentricity. I've also observed a lot of human eccentricity.

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Say: Incorrect; the news reader had them sorted for me chrologically already, but I needed evidence to substantiate any of his music because "bands so bastardize it that orchestras will never play it again."

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Say: What good would that do? I've told you that you would run away without answering the question.

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Say: In the Bartok, the solo violin part is played on the wrong person. Interesting that you "had no idea"...

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Say: SWTHDTM?

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Say: Doe's ISP(s).

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Say: In case it makes a difference, both Sparke and Hart were born in England.

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Say: And you went on to the theme), and I said that the comparison to two known works to give readers a feeling for the nature of the "Best American composer of classical music. If you have a logical argument.

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Say: On what basis do you call twelve accordions at the bottom of the format, but rather the musicians. Good intonation is possible.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: After a fashion.

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Say: And you *still* haven't explained why you consider it "too long".

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Say: On what basis do you use the same kind of horse as Jim.

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Say: On the contrary, it's quite relevant.

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Say: Even composers can be perpetuated.

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Say: How ironic, coming from the person who made a further posting to which I was there just last August. I've seen the CD in record stores here. But for the main cultural event, the organizers of the format, but rather the musicians. Good intonation is possible.

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