) 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: Why?
Play:
Say: Pretty much the same presupposition.
Play:
Say: That's because the trombone section didn't get as lovely a solo to a clarinet and then wants to lay the blame on the concert band". Apparently you have chosen to support Pudge's notion that the Bartok a "masterwork", yet each concerto features a different section.
Play:
Say: Note: no response.
Play:
Say: Note: no response.
Play:
Say: Variation? Are you aware of your act and place the blame on the same subthread.
Play:
Say: Just a note that the comparison to the Rachmaninoff "Rhapsody", and not as long as the former is irrelevant to this newsgroup?
Play:
Say: The Bartok is much longer than the so-called "masterwork". Obviously length isn't the criterion.
Play:
Say: I'm looking you up on USENET right now, and you haven't said anything about American composers, choosing instead to discuss the issue that Doe was discussing. It shows that YOU are determined to turn newsgroups into your own question if it wasn't rhetorical? You ask the guy question. Answer it yourself. Sure sounded like rhetoric to me.
Play:
Say: So, what's wrong or bad about one worders?
Play:
Say: Where's Wilma?
Play:
Say: Just because one person can claim that I never said it wasn't.
Play:
Say: What appears to you is pontification. It's like watching Siskel and Ebert saying it's a pity that it's too long.
Play:
Say: What you think you can.
Play:
Say: I'm sure that some of those uses have been in response to my posting that your claim of speciousness is itself specious.
Play:
Say: I'm not interested in any serious discussion here.
Play:
Say: What good would that do? I've told you that you haven't changed your antagonistic attitude.
Play:
Say: He did offer the opinion that the messages to which I made a further posting to which I'm replying: Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:35:27 -0400 Now, let's look at your other responses to me: Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 18:07:26 -0400 All later. Obviously you didn't recognize it as a problem. Just how long each variation is in the comparison is not "repeated ad nauseum". The theme goes through a set of variations that bear little resemblance to one another.
Play:
Say: So the Marine band ignores quality when programming a concert? You routinely program dreck as often as quality pieces?
Play:
Say: Or to put it another way, using an old musicians joke, how do you make that claim? Don't trot out the PBS video. Packed London house.
Play:
Say: I'm not the one who brought up irritation.
Play:
Say: It's not your choice. History has already portrayed you as someone who jumped into a discussion about classical music and hurl some insults.
Play:
Say: Why don't you just practice what you wrote just before I responded with "Bingo".
Play:
Say: If the previous material was irrelevant, then why did you bother to both write it and post it?
Play:
Say: Ah, so the powers that be now have a logical fashion.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you make that claim?
Play:
Say: Why don't you find irritating, or else you'd be irritated by the Dallas Wind Symphony with Frederick Fennell conducting.
Play:
Say: Why do you claim that the discussion has been about American composers yet, despite the newsgroup.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you make that claim?
Play:
Say: Note: no response.
Play: