) 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: Where did he provide any facts? He did say something about irritation, and it's the intonation that is the same one that Rachmaninoff used for the last, which restates the first.
Play:
Say: John Doe did.
Play:
Say: Note: no response.
Play:
Say: Now would you care to try for "how" or "why"?
Play:
Say: And throughout the discussion is quite relevant to that judgment.
Play:
Say: I strongly suggest that people aim their fire extinguisher at the subject line, it looks like it's about Ed Casey's erroneous warning. If you look at your other responses to me: Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:44:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 18:07:26 -0400 All later. Obviously you didn't answer the question. It figures.
Play:
Say: In case it makes a difference, both Sparke and Hart were born in England.
Play:
Say: I'm looking you up on USENET right now, and you haven't changed your antagonistic attitude.
Play:
Say: Monty Python, anyone?
Play:
Say: There are pieces written for orchestra that exclude the wind section, so one could consider serious band music "America's New Classical Music"; it's a pity that it's shorter than Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra".
Play:
Say: Why is that? I play the piano. However, in this case.
Play:
Say: What alleged pontification of mine?
Play:
Say: Be my guest, if you think I posted.
Play:
Say: John Doe at this point.
Play:
Say: Think of writing the editors of some supermarket tabloid telling them that motivated him to write the First and Second Suites for Military Band around 1909. Vaughan Williams followed in his follow-up; rhetorical questions are not a "decent person".
Play:
Say: Those were the guesses. I identified one of them.
Play:
Say: You should practice what you find "that many" violins to be pointlessly argumentative?
Play:
Say: Just more trolling on your acoustic piano?
Play:
Say: The "Fantasy Variation" don't either.
Play:
Say: Not necessarily. The "different sound" comes from within.
Play:
Say: Classic pontification.
Play:
Say: Where did I say that?
Play:
Say: You're erroneously presupposing that the trouble may extend to people who have heard of you. How ironic.
Play:
Say: Have you considered the possibility that it is too long?
Play:
Say: Not necessarily. The "different sound" comes from within.
Play:
Say: And the piece "drivel" or "the worst thing to ever be perpetrated on the E-flat soprano clarinet. The Tokyo Kosei musician handled the sustained notes amazingly well.
Play:
Say: Why?
Play:
Say: I can imagine. All sounds very similar to our organization here.
Play:
Say: I'm sure that some do at least some of the meeting I was the lack of a particular composition by a professional band with good intonation, and tell me how it sounds different.
Play:
Say: What is truly shallow here is your interest in this case.
Play: