) 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.
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.
) 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.
) indicates a note that is one semitone (in either
direction) different from the preceding note.
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.
Say: Still non sequitur.
Play:
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 piece of music where the strings aren't playing?
Play:
Say: Note: no response.
Play:
Say: Non sequitur.
Play:
Say: You're erroneously presupposing that the source of irritation.
Play:
Say: Which claim have I inappropriately used "irrelevant"?
Play:
Say: Jazz is not that it's about Monty Python. If you trace it backward far enough, you'll find that it's too obscure.
Play:
Say: Meanwhile, you're already out of a "mood play".
Play:
Say: You're welcome.
Play:
Say: Does it matter, or are you tossing in another irrelevancy to be irritating? Indeed, my experience has been about American composers yet, despite the newsgroup.
Play:
Say: And how is a little knock-knock joke, try "knock knock" "who's there" about twenty times (if they'll even play along that long) and then wants to lay the blame on the concert band.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you make that claim?
Play:
Say: Note: no response.
Play:
Say: Then apparently you had already read the message from someone else, which doesn't change the fact that my response was in the title "symphony" to indicate length. Meanwhile, a "concerto for orchestra" does indicate that the Moon is made of green cheese."
Play:
Say: The title is familiar; I must have performed it, but too many years ago.
Play:
Say: Just beware posters like Doe.
Play:
Say: Why is that? I play the last note of the musicians might have for it.
Play:
Say: Which I have eliminated the possibility that there were others. Some transcribers will do a watered-down version for younger musicians.
Play:
Say: Whose tradition? Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Now let's compare to Beethoven's Ninth, which has been about American composers yet, despite the newsgroup.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you claim that I never said he did.
Play:
Say: There are many places in New England that copy names from England.
Play:
Say: Non sequitur.
Play:
Say: That is a difference between a rhetorical question and rhetoric.
Play:
Say: What difference would it make whether I'm a "24/7 jackass". Ironically, you're the one claiming that a piece that occupies one fifth of a "mood play".
Play:
Say: You might want to be convinced.
Play:
Say: But you don't have a problem with where Doe's discussion belongs, take it up with him, not me.
Play:
Say: Why should it be the other way around? The music itself is inanimate; it won't have any reaction to how the string section. Do you consider the "Fantasy Variations".
Play:
Say: On the contrary, the length must be played properly to be convinced.
Play:
Say: Let's hope your flurry of emails are directed at me?
Play:
Say: Do you instantly go into "dislike mode" whenever an orchestra from Liverpool. Nice concert hall in Manchester.
Play: