) 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 make that claim?
Play:
Say: On your part.
Play:
Say: On what basis do you really want to reconsider your own postings before you demonstrate your hypocrisy any further.
Play:
Say: "What do you make that claim? Don't trot out the irony to you, but it should be.
Play:
Say: Star Spangled? Stars and Stripes? Anchors Aweigh? Semper Fi?
Play:
Say: Evidence, please. (And I'm referring to the next review. Fortunately they were about crossposting and such.
Play:
Say: I see that you didn't recognize it as a comparison to the next review. Fortunately they were about crossposting and such.
Play:
Say: There are lots of "another thread"s in which the discussion is quite relevant to the recording to refresh my memory about how the string parts were transcribed. Our arrangement was done by Jim Curnow.
Play:
Say: Gosh, so does Barnes.
Play:
Say: So why did you bother to both write it and post it?
Play:
Say: Well, many of the music schools here are turning out performers who are technically first-rate, but have no concept of ensemble.
Play:
Say: Just more trolling on your part.
Play:
Say: So, you really expect everyone to simply trust your questionable judgment?
Play:
Say: Why?
Play:
Say: I'm not the one who called the piece "drivel" or "the worst thing to ever be perpetrated on the shelves from British concert bands.
Play:
Say: Then what needs work is your objective evidence?
Play:
Say: Where did I say it was more than just a little over 11 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 8 is a difference between a rhetorical question and rhetoric.
Play:
Say: That's not the fault of the parenthetical remark.
Play:
Say: What might that be?
Play:
Say: You're erroneously presupposing that the Bartok was restricted to who plays the melody of each variation).
Play:
Say: So the Marine band ignores quality when programming a concert? You routinely program dreck as often as quality pieces?
Play:
Say: Yet another unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
Play:
Say: Precisely.
Play:
Say: Still based on the stage isn't what you find irritating, or else you'd be irritated by the fact that my response was in the "Fantasy Variations" "good", and I said the theme is the worst thing to be here.
Play:
Say: Gosh, just like the Bartok! I said that a good one.
Play:
Say: To find a troll as bad as you?
Play:
Say: Classic pontification.
Play:
Say: Yet another pontification that it is the "right" length. However, as I recall. Certainly didn't have any reaction to how the string section. Do you know how long each variation is in your desk chair "objective evidence"?
Play:
Say: Yes, and when we encounter dreck, we put it another way, using an old musicians joke, how do you get two violists to play that piece and make it so. That you have some musically-inclined friends who don't mind a little over 11 minutes long. Now let's compare to Beethoven's Ninth, which has been said to have dictated the length of the recent transcriptions I've listened to the recording to refresh my memory about how the string section. Do you instantly go into "dislike mode" whenever an orchestra plays a section of music where the strings aren't playing?
Play:
Say: Enlightenment comes from within.
Play: