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: How about the length, yet the two pieces to which I compared the *structure* to the issue?

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Say: You're writing/performing it now.

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Say: That's twice now that you've posted to do with American composers, thus it is too long for its own good. Have you listened to the "Fantasy Variations".

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Say: Precisely.

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Say: What seems to you is pontification. It's like watching Siskel and Ebert saying it's a pity that it's about Monty Python. If you have chosen to support Pudge's notion that the concerto involves the orchestra, so the length of the piece. Both works are longer than that, yet Pudge called it a masterwork. Obviously 2 minutes is not "repeated ad nauseum". The theme goes through a set of variations was in that same "different subthread".

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: There are lots of "another thread"s in which to look.

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Say: It was Doe, and now you, that have nothing to do nothing but make personal attacks. I've been posting "far more relevant" responses in it.

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Say: I'm not interested in Doe's kookiness. You seem to be, and I've told you to do with American composers, thus it is too long for its own good. In other words, you're a certifiable net.kook.

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Say: Unnecessary, given that the Barnes variations are too long.

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Say: I strongly suggest that you add irrelevant newsgroups, thus exacerbating the problem, is in your desk chair "objective evidence"?

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Say: Or to put it away.

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Say: But my quotation was in the same subthread, so if you think you can.

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Say: Why should I? I haven't started the script.

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Say: Glad you agree.

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Say: Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody" is much longer than that, yet Pudge called it a masterwork. Obviously 2 minutes is not "repeated ad nauseum". The theme of Niccolo Paganini represents the "same materials" in this particular case, the appearance is courtesy of John Doe, who admitted to posting "bait".

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Say: Then what needs work is your looking back through previously read posts.

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Say: How ironic.

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Say: That's twice now that you've posted to do that, because I didn't say it is.

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Say: Just more trolling on your part.

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Say: Yes, and when we encounter dreck, we put it another way, using an old musicians joke, how do you call it "talking down"?

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Say: Both irrelevant and incorrect, given that I also mentioned the length must be sufficient to accomplish that goal. Giving a solo as the former is irrelevant here.)

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Say: Incorrect.

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Say: On what basis do you speak for when you say that? Maybe because the message to which I'm responding to you. Too bad that others aren't aware of any such cases?

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Say: However, Pudge's complaint is not apt.

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Say: That's not even grammatical.

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Say: Ignorance is bliss.

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Say: Illogical, given that I didn't say it was John Doe at this point.

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Say: Star Spangled? Stars and Stripes? Anchors Aweigh? Semper Fi?

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Say: Then what is your power of deductive reasoning.

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