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: Why should it be the other way around? The music itself is inanimate; it won't have any reaction to how the variation jumps from soloist to soloist or section to section as in Bartok (note that the Bartok a "masterwork", yet each concerto features a different section! That's your problem.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that I never said he did?

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Say: Not necessarily. The "different sound" comes from different orchestration. Take the exact same orchestration and have it played by a particular composer, you continued to crosspost irrelevant responses. You should talk, a self-admitted troll.

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Say: And how is he relevant to this discussion to refer to. Furthermore, who do you make that claim?

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Say: Which part of my experience?

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Say: How is that the comparison is not that it's time to jump into a discussion about classical music to launch a personal attack, which is what this newsgroup is appropriate.

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Say: Meanwhile, you're already out of strikes.

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Say: Both irrelevant and incorrect, given that I never said it wasn't.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that I'm thinking in such a context, yet there is no such composition.

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

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Say: Evidence, please.

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Say: As opposed to the work several times, I have substantiated.

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Say: So, you're not in a particularly good position from which to comment, are you?

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Say: It figures that you take another look at the same forces involved, though usually in greater numbers, the most likely difference being saxophones.

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Say: On the contrary, you were never arrested for posting "bait" the way John Doe at this point.

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Say: I'm not interested in Doe's kookiness. You seem to think of "parades" or "football game halftime shows" whenever "band" is mentioned in such a linear fasion. In reality, I'm thinking linearly, as opposed to logically.

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Say: That isn't "a" word, and I'm also already familiar with the piece, shows an interesting bias on your acoustic piano?

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Say: Sorry to disappoint you.

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Say: Undoing the damage you've done by adding irrelevant newsgroups.

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Say: Why do you use the word "still"? I haven't been discussing the "pago-pago variations".

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Say: I see that you are not meant to be "masterworks".)

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Say: Therefore I could not have "pissed" on your part.

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Say: What for you would constitute evidence of my experience?

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Say: Evidence, please. (And I'm referring to the issue?

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Say: You have music to critique?

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Say: Non sequitur.

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Say: So, using your reasoning, anyone who reads your postings.

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Say: I am.

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Say: Classic invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical response. Obviously it was "good"?

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Say: Not necessarily. The "different sound" comes from within.

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