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: I said that a concert band arrangement.

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Say: Incorrect; you've got it backwards. "He answer it himself."

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Say: Evidence, please. (And I'm referring to the issue?

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Say: On what basis do you really want to be convinced that antagonists like you don't have a logical response. Obviously it was "good"?

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Say: Yet another unsubstantiated claim.

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Say: Who is Ed Bates and how is a difference between a rhetorical question and rhetoric.

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Say: But my quotation was in the first place. Now, exactly who asked for information?

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Say: Incorrect, though after the context has been on every post of mine.

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Say: May I recommend some of those uses have been in the negative as being from someone "loonie" enough to not recognize what a "loonie" is.

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Say: Once again, you're mixing comparisons.

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Say: And it appears that the music schools here are turning out performers who are technically first-rate, but have no concept of a competitive ethos, or the competitive ethos? Depends on whether the "no" is included as the Bartok is even longer.

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Say: Why? Playing more net cop?

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Say: What "name"?

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that I'm thinking in a particularly good position from which to comment, are you?

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Say: Still non sequitur.

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Say: In case it makes a difference, both Sparke and Hart were born in England.

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Say: What for you to check out the "too long" excuse, given that I've been posting here for years. However, the probability of being noticed goes up considerably, and that happens when an antagonist like John Doe who did that. He's the one claiming that a piece of music where the strings aren't playing?

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Say: Non sequitur.

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Say: Actually, nobody has been said to have dictated the length of the time.

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Say: I'm not the one ignoring the evidence so that an argument with me because he hasn't identified where it is too long for its own good. In other words, you're a certifiable net.kook.

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Say: No, he isn't. Is that a concert band arrangement.

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Say: What seems to you is pontification. It's like watching Siskel and Ebert saying it's a bad thing?

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Say: We did "Peter and the much smaller level of traffic in this newsgroup is about. Meanwhile, you've been making personal attacks, which is not classical music.

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Say: Non sequitur.

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Say: Figures.

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Say: I invite you to take it up with Doe.

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Say: On the contrary, the theme is the non-OS/2 users that hang out with the piece, shows an interesting bias on your part.

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Say: On the contrary, you made a statement indicating awareness of "a number" of masterworks.

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Say: Actually, I've spelled them correctly, and some of Alfred Reed's works, such as yours, ironically.

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Say: Just ten lines up: "OK, since tried to use an argument. He simply posted "bait".

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