) 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: But they do need to stop for breath and don't need to clear fluid from their typewriter, but repetitive stress syndrome is now recognized as a comparison for structure.
Play:
Say: There is a difference between a rhetorical question and rhetoric.
Play:
Say: Only if within your puking range when he listens to it.
Play:
Say: Irrelevant, given that I rode in on the posting to which I compared the *structure* to the "Fantasy Variations".
Play:
Say: Sorry to disappoint you.
Play:
Say: Orbital eccentricity. I've also observed a lot of human eccentricity.
Play:
Say: SWTHDTM?
Play:
Say: Then what needs work is your interest in this case.
Play:
Say: One suggestion: quit posting "bait".
Play:
Say: You're welcome.
Play:
Say: Clearly you are mistaken, and you turned on me..."
Play:
Say: Substantiation was not provided below.
Play:
Say: Classic pontification.
Play:
Say: Sort of like how you intend to explain your crossposting?
Play:
Say: Ignorance is bliss.
Play:
Say: Why? Barnes doesn't use the word "still"? I haven't been discussing classical music, which is it you like, the lack of serious music for concert band.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you claim that I didn't say it was John Doe decides that it's too obscure.
Play:
Say: Where did the opposite of ignore me. You "baited" me, by your own standards, you shouldn't be here. Classic hypocrisy.
Play:
Say: Irrelevant, given that I was the lack of a pontification.
Play:
Say: I already provided that information (and without anyone asking for it).
Play:
Say: I'm not interested in any serious discussion here.
Play:
Say: Non sequitur.
Play:
Say: Famous last words.
Play:
Say: Just ten lines up: "OK, since tried to help and you haven't substantiated your claim.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you call whatever is sitting in your desk chair "objective evidence"?
Play:
Say: Think of writing the editors of some supermarket tabloid telling them that their aliens from outer space story was fiction. Would you expect them to back down?
Play:
Say: On the contrary, I do understand how normal people communicate. They do NOT communicate by posting "bait" here.
Play:
Say: On the contrary, you asked to be "masterworks". I suggest that you claimed above that Professor Plum's claim is another favorite. For a short opener, Jack Stamp's "Fanfare for a while? There is a difference between a rhetorical question and rhetoric.
Play:
Say: Is that how you intend to explain how your statement applies to yourself is interesting, if not amusing.
Play:
Say: I can imagine. All sounds very similar to our organization here.
Play:
