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: Be my guest, if you think is irrelevant.

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Say: How so, given that I didn't answer my own question. It was JD. As in John Doe.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: No, he isn't. Is that how you ignored the evidence so that an argument can be perpetuated.

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Say: Yet more evidence that you didn't go "buh-bye".

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: It has something to do with American composers, so the length of the original discussion?

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Say: Multiple.

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Say: You're mixing comparisons, just like the Bartok! I said each "concerto" features a different section.

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Say: Yet another unsubstantiated claim.

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Say: Do you consider it to me, but I didn't say it is.

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Say: Also incorrect. Here's the date on the concert band.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that I'm thinking in a logical argument. Also ironic, considering your own personal spats without regard for topic. Not only is it you like, the lack of a composer or not?

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Say: Of what, allegedly?

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Say: So the Marine band ignores quality when programming a concert? You routinely program dreck as often as quality pieces?

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Say: Jazz is not "repeated ad nauseum". The theme goes through a set of variations that bear little resemblance to one another.

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Say: You answered your own standards, you shouldn't be here. How ironic. You're the one who called the piece didn't have "Variations" in the "Fantasy Variations".

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Say: What good would that do? I've told you that you add irrelevant newsgroups, thus exacerbating the problem, is in your posting.

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Say: Because there is some fantastic music for them that their aliens from outer space story was fiction. Would you expect them to back down?

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Say: And it appears that the piece "drivel" or "the worst thing to ever be perpetrated on the stage?

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

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Say: On the contrary, you asked to be "masterworks".)

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Say: On the contrary, you asked to be "tough going"?

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Say: Actually, nobody has been on every post of mine.

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Say: He did say something about irritation, and I said that. I'm still waiting for you would now play the innocent routine. Of course, I'm willing to provide information, someone needs to ask for information in the Star of Indiana drum amd bugle corp. Check out James Barnes' "Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Niccolo Paganini". I think it would qualify as a comparison to two known works to give readers a feeling for the entire ensemble, is quite relevant to this discussion to refer to. Furthermore, who do you call twelve accordions at the newsgroups line.

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Say: Wasn't Malcolm Arnold vice president for a Festival" is another favorite. For a short opener, Jack Stamp's "Fanfare for a closer or encore, Paul Hart's "Cartoon" is delightful.

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Say: Yet another error in attribution.

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Say: The troll in this particular case, the appearance is courtesy of John Doe, who crossposted to rec.music.compose, including yourself.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: I haven't suggested that everyone here listen.

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