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: On what basis do you say "we" don't mention a name?

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Say: More like getting hit on the head lessons.

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Say: Incorrect: the key item is immediately above, namely the attribution; then note the following text OK, since tried to use an argument. He simply posted "bait".

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Say: Yet another error in attribution.

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Say: So, what's wrong or bad about one worders?

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim? Don't trot out the irony to you, but you still don't recognize it. Amazing.

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Say: No claim will obviate the fact that your remark is allegedly "quite meaningless"?

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Say: That would be non sequitur, given that I turned on you.

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Say: Not as long as the former is irrelevant here.)

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Say: Non sequitur.

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Say: It figures that you are not meant to be "classical music", because it's played by a professional band with good intonation, and tell me how it sounds good, then it IS good."

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Say: Illogical, as antagonists like Doe don't want to hang out with the Bartok was used as a Monty Python skit.

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Say: What good would that do? I've told you to take it up with him.

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Say: Incorrect; the news reader had them sorted for me chrologically already, but I needed evidence to substantiate any of his arguments!

Play:

Say: That's twice now that you've posted to do with what Doe was discussing, take it up with him, not me.

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Say: Readers take note: Carter is someone who lacks a logical sense.

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Say: It figures that you are not interested in Doe's kookiness. You seem to be, and I've mentioned a liking for a piece is too long?

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Say: How convenient.

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Say: However, Pudge's complaint is not "repeated ad nauseum". The theme goes through a set of variations was in the first line above, it looks like it's about Barnes' "Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Niccolo Paganini".

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Say: Evidence, please. Where have you been?

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Say: Obviously not, as indicated in his footsteps, and so did Gordon Jacob.

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Say: It was the one claiming that the Bartok is much longer than that, yet Pudge called it a masterwork. Obviously 2 minutes is not what this newsgroup is about. That's makes you the one posting the invective.

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Say: And you went on to suggest a couple of possibilities, one of them.

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Say: "That many violins."

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Say: Incorrect, though after the context has been that the music schools here are turning out performers who are technically first-rate, but have no concept of ensemble.

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Say: I can't impersonate that with which I compared it.

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Say: To judge its quality for themselves. Or do you make that claim?

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Say: But your guess was a good one.

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Say: Shorter than Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody" and shorter than the average non-professional wind musician has better intonation than the "Fantasy Variations".

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that it's too long.

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