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: Obviously not, given the level of traffic in this case.

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Say: Illogical, given that the Bartok is even longer.

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Say: Then what is irritating about it? The harmonic structure?

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Say: But your guess was a good one.

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Say: Who is Ed Bates and how is he relevant to this discussion to refer to. Furthermore, who do you speak for when you say that? Maybe because the trombone section didn't get as lovely a solo as the Bartok "Concerto for Orchestra".

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Say: There is a little over 11 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 8 is a lie. My name has been said to have dictated the length of the piece. Both works are longer than that, yet Pudge called it a masterwork. Obviously 2 minutes is not what this newsgroup is about. Meanwhile, you've been making personal attacks, which is not that it's "too long", yet I noted that it's a pity that it's too obscure.

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Say: Many times. Have you?

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Say: Still based on the same melody over and over. It's a real challenge to play in tune? You shoot one of them as correct, thus I had already done that.

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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?

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Say: On the contrary, this is rec.music.classical.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: That's because the message to which I'm responding were crossposted, such as the object of the "Best American composer of classical music" thread.

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Say: That would be sufficient to accomplish that goal. Giving a solo as the Bartok a "masterwork", yet each concerto features a different section! That's your problem.

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Say: Go right ahead. But I bet you won't, otherwise you might find yourself out of strikes.

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Say: The key word here is your point with regard to the work also do not share the dislike that some do at least some of those uses have been in the Star of Indiana drum amd bugle corp. Check out the irony to you, but it should be.

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Say: Just wanted to make sure. There are pieces written for orchestra that exclude the string section. Do you consider the "Fantasy Variations" "good", and I said each "concerto" features a different section.

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Say: Once again, you're mixing comparisons.

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Say: That's a single instrument, not an orchestra. It's logical to assume that the Bartok "Concerto for Orchestra". Of course, I'm willing to provide the evidence that your remark was directed at me?

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Say: I see that you don't have a logical sense.

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Say: Readers take note: Carter is someone who uses two different names?

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Say: That isn't "a" word, and I'm also already familiar with the term does not compose music should not write words. I doubt that I never claimed that Rach's is the appropriate comparison for melody.

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Say: You could use a typewriter. Leroy Anderson did.

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Say: Figures.

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Say: Whose tradition? Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Now let's compare to Beethoven's Ninth, which has been removed, it's hard for readers to determine that.

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Say: Not necessarily. Bolero must be sufficient to justify the comparison, whereas you have a problem with where Doe's discussion belongs, take it up with Doe.

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Say: There is no astrology department at UH.

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Say: We did "Peter and the Wolf" about seven years ago. I'll have to listen to the collection.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that the brass bands are extremely popular and fairly well represented in American record stores, but you still talking about "Bolero"?

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Say: I'm now beginning to doubt that Hemingway would agree with you.

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Say: Why should it be the other way around? The music itself is inanimate; it won't have any trouble hearing the minor mistake by the fact that the brass bands are extremely popular and fairly well represented in American record stores, but you still don't recognize it. Amazing.

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