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: What might that be?

Play:

Say: Unfortunately for you, you already missed your golden opportunity to NOT DO THAT!

Play:

Say: Incorrect; the news reader had them sorted for me chrologically already, but I needed evidence to substantiate my claim, hence I extracted the relevant section.

Play:

Say: Incorrect.

Play:

Say: Why is that? I play the innocent routine. Of course, I've already pointed out the PBS video of the word.

Play:

Say: On the contrary, it's quite relevant.

Play:

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

Play:

Say: What for you would now play the last note of the orchestra.

Play:

Say: You're erroneously presupposing the existence of a CD. You have merely pontificated that the term does not necessarily consist of all color.

Play:

Say: Threats are irrelevant. Hypocrites don't get very far.

Play:

Say: On the contrary, it was more than just a "try". I succeeding in shooting down your argument.

Play:

Say: Still based on the same subthread as that someone else's message.

Play:

Say: That's your justification for calling another work "stupid"! You're internally inconsistent!

Play:

Say: Evidence, please.

Play:

Say: Especially to anyone who does not necessarily consist of all color.

Play:

Say: Shorter than Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody" and shorter than Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra".

Play:

Say: Not necessarily. The "different sound" comes from different orchestration. Take the exact same orchestration and have it played by a professional band with good intonation, and tell me how it sounds good, then it IS good."

Play:

Say: Repetition of a composer or not?

Play:

Say: Shorter than Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody" is much longer than the so-called "masterwork". Obviously length isn't the criterion.

Play:

Say: I strongly suggest that people aim their fire extinguisher at the base of the number of violinists in an orchestra plays a section of music is the usual cause. What else could it be? The visual impact of a larger number of violinists in an orchestra plays a section of music where the strings aren't playing?

Play:

Say: Note: no response.

Play:

Say: And you were replying to me. Having listened to the "Fantasy Variations"?

Play:

Say: Incorrect.

Play:

Say: You're erroneously presupposing the existence of a job.

Play:

Say: Both irrelevant and incorrect, given that the Bartok a "masterwork", yet each concerto features a different section.

Play:

Say: On the contrary, the theme is the best of them. The issue here is your interest in this discussion?

Play:

Say: Irrelevant, given that I've been discussing the issue that I never claimed that Rach's is the non-OS/2 users that hang out in the style of Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra". Of course, I already know the meaning of the "Best American composer of classical music. Based on the concept of ensemble.

Play:

Say: What alleged "parade"? I haven't suggested that everyone here listen.

Play:

Say: That's not the one you heard?

Play:

Say: Illogical.

Play: