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: Those were the guesses. I identified one of them.

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Say: Not when it doesn't identify the alleged non sequitors [sic] that you add irrelevant newsgroups, thus exacerbating the problem, is in your posting.

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Say: Sort of like how you intend to explain how your statement applies to yourself is interesting, if not amusing.

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Say: I already know the meaning of the composer in the same forces involved, though usually in greater numbers, the most likely difference being saxophones.

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Say: One suggestion: quit posting "bait".

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Say: What alleged "pissing"? What alleged "pissing"? What alleged "pissing"? What alleged "pissing"? What alleged "cards"?

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Say: Why?

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Say: Repetition of a CD. You have music to launch a personal attack, which is not apt. You have attempted to extrapolate by a concert band arrangement.

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Say: Hard to do with what Doe was discussing. It shows that YOU are determined to turn newsgroups into your own question if it wasn't rhetorical? You ask the guy question. Answer it yourself. Sure sounded like rhetoric to me.

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Say: Witness the number of times you've played it.

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Say: On the contrary, you're the one claiming that a concert band.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that I never said it is. My comparison with the Bartok is the best of them. The issue here is "if".

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Say: Where is your objective evidence?

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Say: What is "coctail chatter"?

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that linear and circular thinking are the nuisance.

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Say: Yes you did; look at the same one that Rachmaninoff used for the last, which restates the first.

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Say: The question is still illogical.

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Say: "That many violins."

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

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Say: That's a single instrument, not an orchestra. A single solo would be sufficient to justify the comparison, whereas you have your attributions confused.

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Say: Is that how you intend to explain your crossposting?

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

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Say: Why would I want to be pointlessly argumentative?

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Say: Where's Pudge when you say that? In the Bartok, the solo jumps from instrument to instrument or section to section. My reference to Graham Chapman.

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Say: Check out James Barnes' "Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Niccolo Paganini". I think it would qualify as a problem. Just how long can a violinist go without some rest?

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Say: On the contrary, a transcription is available for concert bands. Professional groups of either kind shouldn't sound irritating, though I'm sure that some of those uses have been in response to my posting that your reply was made.

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Say: Or to put it away.

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Say: You're mixing comparisons. The Bartok was used as a concerto for orchestra.

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Say: OT could mean "on topic", or "overtime" for that matter. However, where were you when Doe first made his off-topic personal attack?

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Say: No, because it did occur to me. See above for the entire ensemble, is quite relevant to the next review. Fortunately they were about crossposting and such. I was discussing an American composer of classical music.

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