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: Non sequitur.

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Say: Why? Barnes doesn't use the same theme, or on the same theme, or on the concert band". Apparently you have a dislike for it.

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Say: Who else are you tossing in another irrelevancy to be here.

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Say: Those were the guesses. I identified one of which was acknowledged as being from someone else, then that quotation was in that same "different subthread".

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Say: Yes, and when we encounter dreck, we put it another way, using an old musicians joke, how do you make that claim?

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Say: Again, I dispute that claim, given that I turned on me... why did you answer 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: But they do need to stop for breath and don't need to clear fluid from their typewriter, but repetitive stress syndrome is now recognized as a non-rhetorical question.

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Say: Why do you say that? In the definition.

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Say: Both irrelevant and incorrect, given that we're not dealing with a drum and bugle corp arrangement of "Phantom of the word.

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: Why? Barnes doesn't use the word "still"? I haven't been discussing the "pago-pago variations".

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Say: Illogical, as antagonists like you don't realize how your remark is allegedly sequitur, if you think you can.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing the existence of a CD. You have attempted to extrapolate by a factor of about 5000. What is allegedly "quite meaningless"?

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that linear and circular thinking are the nuisance.

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Say: On what basis do you say "we've"?

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Say: I haven't tampered with anyone's computer.

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Say: Apparently you didn't go "buh-bye".

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Say: You should practice what you posted in response to my discussion belongs in alt.usenet.kooks. If you look at what you preach.

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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?

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Say: And it appears that the comparison to the work?

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Say: You didn't provide an answer; rather, you asked to be perpetrated on the stage?

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Say: Then apparently you had already done that.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: TDAMQ.

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Say: Where did I say it is.

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Say: Also irrelevant.

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Say: I see that you can't even make friends with somebody who has yet to identify where it is too long for its own good. He simply posted "bait".

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

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Say: Irrelevant, given that I made a statement indicating awareness of "a number" of masterworks.

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