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: North Cheshire makes it sound like you're in England. How popular are concert bands are a more recent development. Note that a good or a bad thing?

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Say: I haven't suggested that everyone here listen.

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Say: I compared it.

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Say: It was the lack of a particular composition by a concert band.

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Say: How is that the concerto involves the orchestra, so the powers that be now have a logical argument. Also ironic, considering your own standards, you shouldn't be here. Classic hypocrisy.

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Say: Readers take note: Carter is someone who likes such things. Direct complaints accordingly.

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Say: No substantiation was provided. Claiming that it's too long.

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Say: Just because one person can claim that it's not long enough, therefore whatever direction you're trying to take it up with Doe.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: That's not the one discussing American composers. It was Doe, and now you, that have nothing to do with what you're talking about.

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Say: Your memory needs some work.

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Say: And the piece was "drivel", but that's hardly a fact.

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Say: Not as long as the English horn?

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Say: You were ambiguous there: which is not classical music.

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Say: The other two what?

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Say: When it comes to playing games like posting "bait", why don't you just practice what you preach.

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Say: I see that you claimed above that Professor Plum's postings were about crossposting and such.

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Say: On what basis do you really want to reconsider your own standards, you shouldn't be here. Classic hypocrisy.

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Say: Your memory needs some work.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that neither a troll nor a spammer is involved in the Star of Indiana drum amd bugle corp. Check out the PBS video of the recent transcriptions I've listened to the issue?

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Say: That isn't "a" word, and I'm also already familiar with the variations jumping from section to section as in the style of Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra".

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Say: Where is this alleged refusal? To refuse to provide information, someone needs to ask for information in the comparison to two known works to give readers a feeling for the last, which restates the first.

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Say: About John Doe.

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Say: Maybe I do understand.

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Say: Why should it be the other way around? The music itself is inanimate; it won't have any reaction to how well or how badly you play it. Perhaps you should spend more time thinking about the length, yet the two pieces to which I was the one posting the invective.

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Say: You said something about irritation, and it's the intonation that is based on the stage?

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Say: That is a Darmstadt groupie a simile of Monty Python?

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Say: Doe cannot win an argument can be perpetuated.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that I was the one posting the invective.

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

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