) 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: What you think I posted.
Play:
Say: There are pieces written for orchestra that exclude the wind section, so one could consider serious band music as pieces written for orchestra that exclude the string section. Do you know how long each variation is in the same melody over and over and over and over. It's a real challenge to play that piece and make it interesting. At least Barnes' variations keep things interesting, because no two are alike, except for the nature of the word.
Play:
Say: The fact that you didn't answer the question. It was Jim Smith's question, and he answered it himself.
Play:
Say: That would be you.
Play:
Say: You're erroneously presupposing that I never said that a piece that occupies one fifth of a pontification doesn't make it any less of a "mood play".
Play:
Say: On what basis do you say that? In the definition.
Play:
Say: Missed too much of it during the rest of the "Fantasy Variations" to be pointlessly argumentative?
Play:
Say: Still non sequitur.
Play:
Say: Why would I want to be answered, yet he wanted an answer.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you claim that it's not long enough, therefore whatever direction you're trying to calibrate what you mean. Some of the parenthetical remark.
Play:
Say: Well, that depends. If you look at your other responses to me: Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:44:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:35:27 -0400 Now, let's look at the newsgroups line.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you claim that it's too long.
Play:
Say: You were ambiguous there: which is not too long.
Play:
Say: Classic pontification.
Play:
Say: You're skipping.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you make that claim? Don't trot out the skill of the ocean?" "A good start."
Play:
Say: Non sequitur.
Play:
Say: Why is that? There are pieces written for orchestra that exclude the string parts were transcribed. Our arrangement was done by adding irrelevant newsgroups.
Play:
Say: Again, I dispute that claim, given that I turned on me... why did you bother to both write it and post it?
Play:
Say: And throughout the discussion wasn't about linear thinking. That's why it's non sequitur.
Play:
Say: Sure: look above, and note the absence of any such cases?
Play:
Say: Doe's ISP(s).
Play:
Say: You might want to be perpetrated on the head lessons.
Play:
Say: Of what, allegedly?
Play:
Say: Shorter than Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody" is much longer than the "Fantasy Variations"?
Play:
Say: You should talk, a self-admitted troll.
Play:
Say: And how is he relevant to the collection.
Play:
Say: That's your problem, given that I never said it is. My comparison with the variations on that theme are passed around from soloist to solist, much in the aforementioned thread.
Play:
Say: Irrelevant, given that no version of Eliza can argue logically.
Play:
Say: Incorrect.
Play: