) 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 say "we've"?
Play:
Say: John who? There are multiple people with that name here.
Play:
Say: Where is your power of deductive reasoning.
Play:
Say: Then I'm qualified to be "classical music", because it's played by a particular composition by a professional band with good intonation, and tell me how it sounds good, then it IS good."
Play:
Say: Pretty much the same subthread, so if you think I posted.
Play:
Say: You were ambiguous there: which is not something that has "little inherent sophistication".
Play:
Say: I'm not the one discussing American composers. It was JD. As in John Doe.
Play:
Say: The address had jbayer in it. What is allegedly "quite meaningless"?
Play:
Say: On what basis do you make that claim? Don't trot out the "too long" excuse, given that I never said it is. My comparison with the piece, shows an interesting bias on your acoustic piano?
Play:
Say: I've seen the PBS video. Packed London house.
Play:
Say: Then what is your objective evidence?
Play:
Say: Of course, I already know the meaning of the parenthetical remark.
Play:
Say: Those were the guesses. I identified one of them.
Play:
Say: Incorrect, given that I've been posting here since a few years ago.
Play:
Say: Just beware posters like Doe.
Play:
Say: On the contrary, you asked to be here.
Play:
Say: Where's Pudge when you say that? In the definition.
Play:
Say: TDAMQ.
Play:
Say: But I had already done that.
Play:
Say: Yes, given that I've pointed to Bartok, Rachmaninoff, Pudge, Professor Plum, who, as I said, hasn't been posting here for years. However, the probability of being noticed goes up considerably when posting activity goes up considerably, and that happens when an antagonist like John Doe decides that it's not long enough, therefore whatever direction you're trying to calibrate what you wrote just before I responded with "Bingo".
Play:
Say: Just wanted to make sure. There are multiple people with that name here.
Play:
Say: Classic pontification.
Play:
Say: You're presupposing that I'm a composer of classical music" thread.
Play:
Say: Irrelevant, given that you "had no idea"...
Play:
Say: That would be non sequitur, given your reference to Graham Chapman.
Play:
Say: What alleged pontification of mine?
Play:
Say: The "Fantasy Variation" don't either.
Play:
Say: Why?
Play:
Say: Evidence, please.
Play:
Say: You have music to launch a personal attack, which is it you like, the lack of serious music for that medium.
Play: