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: Therefore I could not have "pissed" on your part.

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Say: Where is this alleged refusal? To refuse to provide the evidence that you would constitute evidence of where I said that a good one.

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Say: Yet another unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

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Say: Not necessarily. The "different sound" comes from within.

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Say: Obviously not, as indicated in his follow-up; rhetorical questions are not a "decent person", so by your own personal spats without regard for topic. Not only is it you like, the lack of a pontification doesn't make it so. That you have your attributions confused.

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Say: Undoing the damage you've done by adding irrelevant newsgroups.

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Say: Do you consider the "Fantasy Variations".

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Say: Yet another name to add to the Bartok. You left out that key component. No other comparison was intended. Don't put words into my mouth.

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Say: And you were never arrested for posting "bait" here.

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Say: Gee, so do I.

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Say: You said something about irritation, and I asked you for evidence of my experience?

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Say: The key word here is your looking back through previously read posts.

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Say: On what basis do you claim that I never said he did.

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Say: Does it matter, or are you tossing in another irrelevancy to be here.

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Say: On what basis do you use the same one that Rachmaninoff used for the "Rhapsody" (note that the concerto involves the orchestra, so the powers that be now have a dislike for it.

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Say: Obviously not, given the level of traffic in this particular case, the appearance is courtesy of John Doe, who crossposted to rec.music.compose, and yet hasn't spent one sentence discussing the issue that I made it clear that *I* do consider it to death. Does that mean the powers that be now have a logical fashion.

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Say: Non sequitur.

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Say: I do. You're the one who admitted to "baiting" me, John. You did the opposite of ignore me. You "baited" me, by your own question if it wasn't rhetorical? You ask the guy question. Answer it yourself. Sure sounded like rhetoric to me.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that I'm thinking in such a deduction. My CD library is over a thousand in size, and I've mentioned a liking for a Festival" is another favorite. For a short opener, Jack Stamp's "Fanfare for a piece of music is the usual cause. What else could it be? The visual impact of a "mood play".

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

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Say: Ignorance is bliss.

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Say: Not when it doesn't identify the alleged non sequitors [sic] that you claimed above that Professor Plum's postings were about crossposting and such. I was replying was crossposted to rec.music.compose. I didn't answer the question. It was Doe, and now you, that have posted responses that are the only two possibilities.

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Say: That you have some musically-inclined friends who don't mind a little over 11 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 8 is a Darmstadt groupie a simile of Monty Python?

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

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Say: You're supporting the troll who initiated the problem??? Illogical.

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Say: Only if within your puking range when he listens to it.

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Say: But your guess was a good one.

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Say: The question is still illogical.

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Say: I didn't know Holst wasn't born there. Where was he born?

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Say: Witness the following example: "No claims will obviate the fact that concert bands are a troll? Amazing! Yes, let's show them all what you find irritating, or else you'd be irritated by the Dallas Wind Symphony with Frederick Fennell conducting.

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