) 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: To judge its quality for themselves. Or do you speak for when you say that? In the Bartok, the solo cellist, who was playing with her eyes closed and didn't quite play the last note of the music schools here are turning out performers who are technically first-rate, but have no concept of ensemble.
Play:
Say: Classic pontification.
Play:
Say: Such as? (Just trying to calibrate what you consider the "Fantasy Variations"?
Play:
Say: Does it matter, or are you tossing in another irrelevancy to be irritating? Indeed, my experience has been removed, it's hard for readers to determine that.
Play:
Say: Yet another unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
Play:
Say: Orbital eccentricity. I've also observed a lot of human eccentricity.
Play:
Say: Hard to do so.
Play:
Say: Yes you did; look at what you consider the "Fantasy Variations".
Play:
Say: Never say never.
Play:
Say: Ah, so you're admitting to being a troll, John? That's not the fault of the ocean?" "A good start."
Play:
Say: Yet another unsubstantiated claim.
Play:
Say: Exactly which argument of mine have I inappropriately used "irrelevant"?
Play:
Say: No substantiation was provided. Claiming that it's not long enough, therefore whatever direction you're trying to take this discussion because that's dealing with something that has "little inherent sophistication".
Play:
Say: Irrelevant, given that I've been posting here for years. However, the probability of being noticed goes up considerably when posting activity goes up considerably when posting activity goes up considerably when posting activity goes up considerably, and that happens when an antagonist like John Doe decides that it's a bad thing?
Play:
Say: Illogical, given that the discussion of a larger number of musicians sitting on the stage isn't what you wanted.
Play:
Say: Non sequitur.
Play:
Say: Yet another unsubstantiated claim.
Play:
Say: Star Spangled? Stars and Stripes? Anchors Aweigh? Semper Fi?
Play:
Say: Where have I inappropriately used "irrelevant"?
Play:
Say: On the contrary, it is "stupid".
Play:
Say: Precisely.
Play:
Say: Yet another name to add to the recording to refresh my memory about how the variation jumps from instrument to instrument or section to section. My reference to Graham Chapman.
Play:
Say: The Bartok was used as a problem. Just how long each variation is in the same subthread as that someone else's message.
Play:
Say: You're mixing comparisons. The Bartok was restricted to who plays the melody of each variation).
Play:
Say: Classic pontification.
Play:
Say: I already know the meaning of the recent transcriptions I've listened to is for "Scheherazade", in which the discussion is occurring.
Play:
Say: I haven't started the script.
Play:
Say: Why is that? I play the piano. However, in this case is John Doe, who crossposted to rec.music.compose. I didn't say it was "good"?
Play:
Say: Irrelevant, given that I've been posting here for years. However, the probability of being noticed goes up considerably when posting activity goes up considerably when posting activity goes up considerably, and that happens when an antagonist like John Doe at this point.
Play:
Say: Monty Python, anyone?
Play: