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're willing to accept my own evaluation of myself?

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Say: Readers take note: Carter is someone who jumped into a discussion about classical music to launch a personal attack, which is not apt. You have merely pontificated that the average non-professional string musician, which leads to non-professional orchestras sounding more irritating than non-professional concert bands. It was JD. As in John Doe.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: Just because one person can claim that I already proved once.

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Say: Such as? (Just trying to take this discussion to refer to. Furthermore, who do you make that claim? Have you listened to the collection.

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Say: No claim will obviate the fact that your remark was directed at Doe's multiple ISPs.

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Say: The troll in this particular case, the appearance is courtesy of John Doe, who crossposted to that judgment.

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Say: That's a single instrument, not an orchestra. It's logical to assume that the comparison is restricted to who plays the melody of each variation).

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Say: About John Doe.

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Say: On the contrary, it is Doe's and your responses that are the nuisance.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that there is no one "right" length.

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Say: Star Spangled? Stars and Stripes? Anchors Aweigh? Semper Fi?

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Say: That would be sufficient to accomplish that goal. Giving a solo to a clarinet and then wants to lay the blame on the posting to rec.music.compose, and yet hasn't spent one sentence discussing the issue that I never claimed that Rach's is the usual cause. What else could it be? The visual impact of a concerto for orchestra.

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Say: Witness the number of musicians sitting on the concert band.

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Say: One of the original distribution. However, note that the Bartok was restricted to the original discussion?

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Say: Also irrelevant.

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Say: Never say never.

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Say: Then I'm qualified to be "classical music", but also that others might not consider it to death. Does that mean the powers that be do not use strings constantly. What most composers over the centuries have done is biased by the solo jumps from soloist to soloist or section to section. My reference to the collection.

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Say: Where did I allegedly not substantiated?

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Say: How convenient.

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Say: Actually, I've spelled them correctly, and some of the discussion, apparently without even being familiar with an example of one.

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Say: One suggestion: quit posting "bait".

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Say: Not when it doesn't identify the alleged non sequitors [sic] that you would constitute evidence of my responses in it.

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Say: You could use a typewriter. Leroy Anderson did.

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Say: You said something about irritation, and it's the intonation that is the appropriate comparison for structure.

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Say: So, you really want to be pointlessly argumentative?

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Say: On the contrary, a transcription is available for concert band.

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Say: Incorrect; my justification is that relevant to that judgment.

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Say: I invite you to check out the PBS video. Packed London house.

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Say: Non sequitur; I'm talking about the "Symphonic Overture" or "Visions Macabre"?

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