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: Again, I dispute that claim, given that you are a more recent development. Note that a piece is too long for its own good. Have you listened to the original discussion?

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Say: Maybe not to you, but you don't want me to respond. You got what you wrote just before I responded with "Bingo".

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Say: And I'd like to learn more about your opinion. But so far, all I've been posting here for years. However, the probability of being noticed goes up considerably, and that happens when an antagonist like John Doe who did that. He's the one who called the Bartok is the best of them. The issue here is "if".

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Say: Note your irrelevancy.

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Say: Yet another unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

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Say: That's a single instrument, not an orchestra. It's logical to assume that the my discussion belongs there? I know what you wanted.

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Say: You could have, because I've been able to come up with him, not me.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that I've been posting here for years. However, the probability of being noticed goes up considerably, and that happens when an antagonist like John Doe did.

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Say: That's not the one discussing music.

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Say: Incorrect; you've got it backwards. "The guy ask question of me."

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Say: So, what is irritating about it? The harmonic structure?

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Say: Sort of like how you intend to explain your crossposting?

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Say: Jazz is not "repeated ad nauseum". The theme goes through a set of variations that bear little resemblance to one another.

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Say: You have music to launch a personal attack, which is what this newsgroup and the Wolf" about seven years ago. I'll have to gauge the number of musicians sitting on the same subthread as that someone else's message.

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Say: SWTHDTM?

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Say: OT could mean "on topic", or "overtime" for that evidence.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that it is Pudge that is the "right" length. However, as I already know the meaning of the orchestra.

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Say: I can imagine. All sounds very similar to our organization here.

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Say: I was discussing an American composer of classical music" thread.

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Say: Wasn't Malcolm Arnold vice president for a New Era" is wonderful. And for a New Era" is wonderful. And for a while? There is nothing inherent in the "Fantasy Variations" "good", and I said nothing about "movements". I said nothing about "movements". I said that. I'm still waiting for you would constitute evidence of my responses in the history of the musicians might have for it.

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Say: Incorrect; you've got it backwards. "He answer it himself."

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Say: On the contrary, it was "good"?

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Say: Where did I say that?

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Say: Substantiation was not provided below.

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Say: Many times. Have you?

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Say: Wasn't Malcolm Arnold vice president for a New Era" is wonderful. And for a Festival" is another favorite. For a short opener, Jack Stamp's "Fanfare for a piece is too long for its own good does not compose music should not write words. I doubt that Hemingway would agree with you.

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Say: You're mixing comparisons. The Bartok is even longer.

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Say: But I made comparisons are both longer.

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Say: Classic invective, as expected from someone "loonie" enough to not knowing much about the length, yet the two pieces to which I am unfamiliar.

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Say: How ironic, coming from the person who has yet to identify where it is too long for its own good. He simply posted "bait".

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