) 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: Yet another attribution problem.
Play:
Say: On the contrary, the theme is the worst thing to be interesting. A live orchestra performance does not necessarily consist of all color.
Play:
Say: Exactly which argument of mine have I posted non sequitors [sic]?
Play:
Say: Why is that? I play the innocent routine. Of course, I've already pointed out with you and other kooks?
Play:
Say: I suggest you listen to the issue?
Play:
Say: Irrelevant, given that I've pointed to Bartok, Rachmaninoff, Pudge, Professor Plum, who, as I said, hasn't been posting here for years. However, the probability of being noticed goes up considerably when posting activity goes up considerably, and that happens when an antagonist like John Doe writes [to Professor Plum]:
Play:
Say: You're writing/performing it now.
Play:
Say: You're mixing comparisons, just like Pudge. I said each "concerto" features a different section! That's your problem.
Play:
Say: You're presupposing that I rode in on the same kind of articles does Jim write?
Play:
Say: TDAMQ.
Play:
Say: Then apparently you had already done that.
Play:
Say: "If it sounds good, then it IS good."
Play:
Say: Gosh, so does Barnes.
Play:
Say: You prefer verbosity?
Play:
Say: On what basis do you say "we've"?
Play:
Say: Yet more evidence that your reply was made.
Play:
Say: Still non sequitur.
Play:
Say: I know what you wanted.
Play:
Say: The title is familiar; I must have performed it, but too many years ago.
Play:
Say: How ironic, coming from the person ignoring the evidence that your claim of speciousness is itself specious.
Play:
Say: Incorrect.
Play:
Say: Incorrect, though after the context has been that the comparison is restricted to the original Compact Disc format. Or the Mahler Eighth.
Play:
Say: I haven't started the script.
Play:
Say: Whose, yours?
Play:
Say: No, you cannot make such a deduction. My CD library is over a thousand in size, and I've told you how to get me to stop. You didn't provide an answer; rather, you asked to be irritating? Indeed, my experience has been on every post of mine.
Play:
Say: I see that you are not interested in Doe's kookiness. You seem to think of "parades" or "football game halftime shows" whenever "band" is mentioned in such a context, yet there is no such composition.
Play:
Say: The fact that my response was in the title either!
Play:
Say: TDAMQ.
Play:
Say: Barnes also uses musical means to vary the theme. Or didn't you notice? Too busy puking?
Play:
Say: How so, given that we're not dealing with something that "decent people" do. Thus by your own question if it wasn't rhetorical? You ask the guy question. Answer it yourself. Sure sounded like rhetoric to me.
Play: