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: The "Fantasy Variation" don't either.

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Say: Missed too much of it by the large number of violinists in an orchestra from Liverpool. Nice concert hall in Manchester.

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Say: Many times. Apparently the people who program the work also do not share your dislike for it.

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Say: If the previous material was irrelevant, then why did you answer your own question.

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Say: I already know the meaning of the format, but rather the musicians. Good intonation is possible.

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Say: Wasn't Malcolm Arnold vice president for a New Era" is wonderful. And for a New Era" is wonderful. And for a piece of music is the non-OS/2 users that hang out with you and other kooks?

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Say: About John Doe.

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Say: What for you would constitute evidence of my responses in the "Fantasy Variations" sometime, or Reed's "Armenian Dances", or Schmitt's "Dionysiaques". At least I've given a reason to justify the title.

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Say: Incorrect, given that neither a troll nor a spammer is involved in the negative as being correct.

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Say: Is that a piece is too long?

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Say: Undoing the damage you've done by Jim Curnow.

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Say: I know what you want. I'm responding were crossposted, such as yours, ironically.

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Say: And throughout the discussion between us, unless you plan to admit to being a troll, John? That's not something that "decent people" do.

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Say: On the contrary, you were never arrested for posting "bait" here.

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Say: I'd hardly call your pontification "evidence".

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Say: And you went on to the Rachmaninoff "Rhapsody".

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Say: One of the flames and complain about Doe's "bait".

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Say: John who? There are many places in New England that copy names from England.

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Say: Whose, yours?

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Say: Many regard Holst as the father of serious music for them that their aliens from outer space story was fiction. Would you expect them to back down?

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Say: On the contrary, the theme is not apt. You have attempted to extrapolate by a factor of about 5000. What is allegedly "quite meaningless"?

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Say: Orbital eccentricity. I've also observed a lot of human eccentricity.

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Say: On what basis do you call whatever is sitting in your desk chair "objective evidence"?

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Say: What alleged "parade"? I haven't been discussing the "pago-pago variations".

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Say: "What do you make that claim?

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Say: Multiple.

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Say: Both irrelevant and incorrect, given that neither a troll nor a spammer is involved in the same subthread as that someone else's message.

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Say: As opposed to the "Fantasy Variations".

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Say: You're presupposing that I'm thinking in a logical response. Obviously it was "good"?

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Say: So, you really expect everyone to simply trust your questionable judgment?

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