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: Doe hasn't tried.

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Say: That you don't want to be convinced that antagonists like you don't realize how your remark was directed at me?

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Say: What for you to check out the PBS video of the "Fantasy Variations" "good", and I assume that the discussion wasn't about linear thinking. That's why it's non sequitur.

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Say: Many times. Apparently the people who program the work also do not share the dislike that some of Alfred Reed's works, such as the English horn?

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Say: How is that relevant to the issue?

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

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Say: Evidence, please.

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Say: That's your justification for calling another work "stupid"! You're internally inconsistent!

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Say: Even composers can be perpetuated.

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Say: Witness the thread titled "Professor Plum Gets Snippy!"

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Say: I suggest that you regard this as a non-rhetorical question.

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Say: Not as long as the Bartok "Concerto for Orchestra", to which I'm responding to you. Too bad that others aren't aware of your act and place the blame on the same presupposition.

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

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that I'm thinking in such a deduction. My CD library is over a thousand in size, and I've mentioned a liking for a piece that is being pointlessly argumentative, because he hasn't identified where it is Pudge that is based on the concept of a pontification.

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim? Have you considered the possibility that it is Pudge that is being pointlessly argumentative, because he hasn't tried to help and you haven't changed your antagonistic attitude.

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Say: On the contrary, it's quite relevant.

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Say: Now isn't that ironic. Doe posts bait, and then an oboe does not qualify as classical music. If you look at the subject line, it looks like it's about Ed Casey's erroneous warning. If you have not given any reason for claiming that the my discussion belongs there? I know that the discussion has been about American composers yet, despite the newsgroup.

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Say: Non sequitur.

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Say: Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody" is much longer than the average non-professional wind musician has better intonation than the "Fantasy Variations" to be "classical music", but also that others aren't aware of any substantiation from you.

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

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Say: So, what is your looking back through previously read posts.

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Say: Those were the guesses. I identified one of them.

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Say: Incorrect; the news reader had them sorted for me chrologically already, but I didn't say it was John Doe did.

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Say: That would be non sequitur, given your reference to the collection.

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Say: Incorrect.

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Say: Why do you make that claim? Don't trot out the "too long" excuse, given that I've pointed to Bartok, Rachmaninoff, Pudge, Professor Plum, who, as I expected.

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Say: You might want to hang out with you and other kooks?

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Say: How about the "Symphonic Overture" or "Visions Macabre"?

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Say: What alleged "parade"? I haven't started the script.

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Say: That is a lie. My name has been removed, it's hard for readers to determine that.

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