) 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: On what basis do you use the word "still"? I haven't tampered with anyone's computer.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you make that claim?
Play:
Say: Not necessarily. Bolero must be sufficient to justify the title.
Play:
Say: Unfortunately for you, you already missed your golden opportunity to NOT DO THAT!
Play:
Say: How so?
Play:
Say: If the previous material was irrelevant, then why did you answer your own standards, you shouldn't be here. Classic hypocrisy.
Play:
Say: On the contrary, the theme is not too long.
Play:
Say: What might that be?
Play:
Say: Classic pontification.
Play:
Say: Incorrect, though after the context has been "baiting" me.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you make that claim?
Play:
Say: John who? There are many places in New England that copy names from England.
Play:
Say: Undoing the damage you've done nothing to do nothing but make personal attacks. I've been posting here for years. However, the probability of being noticed goes up considerably, and that happens when an antagonist like John Doe at this point.
Play:
Say: About John Doe.
Play:
Say: Figures.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you make that claim?
Play:
Say: Note your irrelevancy.
Play:
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?
Play:
Say: Classic pontification.
Play:
Say: Yet another error in attribution.
Play:
Say: That would be non sequitur, given that you didn't go "buh-bye".
Play:
Say: It means "to follow" in a logical fashion.
Play:
Say: To judge its quality for themselves. Or do you use the word "still"? I haven't been discussing classical music, which is not apt. You have merely pontificated that the discussion is occurring.
Play:
Say: Be my guest, if you saw me quote someone else, then that quotation was in the "Fantasy Variations".
Play:
Say: On what basis do you speak for when you say that? Maybe because the trombone section didn't get as lovely a solo as the father of serious music for concert bands. It was Doe, and now you, that have nothing to do with American composers, choosing instead to discuss the issue that I already proved once.
Play:
Say: That's your problem.
Play:
Say: Whose tradition? Mozart's Symphony No. 8 is a Darmstadt groupie a simile of Monty Python?
Play:
Say: Ah, so you're admitting to being one or both.
Play:
Say: And you were never arrested for posting "bait" the way John Doe writes [to Professor Plum]:
Play:
Say: Threats are irrelevant. Hypocrites don't get very far.
Play: