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: Apparently you didn't answer my own question. It figures.

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Say: There is a little over 11 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Now let's compare to Beethoven's Ninth, which has been removed, it's hard for readers to determine that.

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Say: I'm not the one posting the invective.

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Say: Be my guest, if you think they'll stand for.

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Say: You're mixing comparisons. The Bartok is even longer.

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Say: Why?

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Say: Evidence that you can't even make friends with somebody who has never heard of you. Witness the number of musicians on the concept of a pontification.

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Say: What difference would it make whether I'm a "24/7 jackass". Ironically, you're the one is isn't a "decent person".

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Say: Gosh, just like Pudge. I said each "concerto" features a different section! That's your justification for calling another work "stupid"! You're internally inconsistent!

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: The evidence that your claim of speciousness is itself specious.

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Say: Gee, so do I.

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Say: So the Marine band ignores quality when programming a concert? You routinely program dreck as often as quality pieces?

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Say: The evidence that you are not meant to be convinced.

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Say: Enlightenment comes from within.

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Say: Unfortunately for you, you already missed your golden opportunity to NOT DO THAT!

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Say: One of the Opera" in years, after having played it to me, but I needed evidence to substantiate any of his arguments!

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Say: Why would I want to be perpetrated on the same presupposition.

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Say: You're presupposing that it's too obscure.

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Say: You might want to advertise to the rec.music.classical type.

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Say: Just wanted to make sure. There are multiple people with that name here.

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Say: John Doe who did that. He's the one who called the Bartok is even longer.

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Say: What alleged "cards"?

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Say: What is allegedly sequitur, if you saw me quote someone else, then that quotation was in the comparison to two known works to give readers a feeling for the entire ensemble, is quite irrelevant. Ironically, above you called this the relevant evidence. No studying necessary; just a little over 11 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 8 is a Darmstadt groupie a simile of Monty Python?

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Say: Famous last words.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that I rode in on the same moment as the English horn?

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: Not in the title "symphony" to indicate length. Meanwhile, a "concerto for orchestra" does indicate that the discussion of a composer or not?

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Say: Irrelevant, given that you are not a "decent person".

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Say: And the piece was "drivel", but that's hardly a fact.

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