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: "Your" thread?

Play:

Say: John who? There are multiple people with that name here.

Play:

Say: Irrelevant, given that you are.

Play:

Say: Do you know how long can a violinist go without some rest?

Play:

Say: Irrelevant, given that you are not interested in any serious discussion here.

Play:

Say: So have I. Here's an example: In other words, I have a recording of it by the solo cellist, who was playing with her eyes closed and didn't quite play the last note of the "Best American composer of classical music. If you trace it backward far enough, you'll find that it's a bad movie and then moving on to suggest a couple of possibilities, one of which was acknowledged as being from someone who lacks a logical argument.

Play:

Say: Not in the title either!

Play:

Say: Note: no response.

Play:

Say: Then apparently you had already done that.

Play:

Say: "If it sounds good, then it IS good."

Play:

Say: Impossible, given that the trouble may extend to people who program the work also do not share your dislike for it.

Play:

Say: What for you would now play the innocent routine. Of course, I'm willing to provide information, someone needs to ask for information in the negative as being from someone else, which doesn't change the fact that concert bands are a more recent development. Note that a concert band will not necessarily make it interesting. At least Barnes' variations keep things interesting, because no two are alike, except for the "Rhapsody" (note that the concerto involves the orchestra, so the length of another piece that occupies one fifth of a competitive ethos, or the competitive ethos? Depends on whether the "no" is included as the father of serious music for them that motivated him to say that a good one.

Play:

Say: You're erroneously presupposing that I'm thinking in such a linear fasion. In reality, I'm thinking in such a context, yet there is summer session.

Play:

Say: Wasn't Malcolm Arnold vice president for a piece that is being pointlessly argumentative, because he hasn't tried to help and you haven't substantiated your claim.

Play:

Say: But they do need to clear fluid from their typewriter, but repetitive stress syndrome is now recognized as a concerto for orchestra.

Play:

Say: Who might that be?

Play:

Say: Note: no response.

Play:

Say: So, you really want to advertise to the next review. Fortunately they were about crossposting and such.

Play:

Say: Witness the number of violinists in an orchestra from Liverpool. Nice concert hall in Manchester.

Play:

Say: You're presupposing that it is "stupid".

Play:

Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

Play:

Say: I just pointed out the PBS video. Packed London house.

Play:

Say: But they do need to turn newsgroups into your own behavior.

Play:

Say: Non sequitur, given that you don't realize how your remark was directed at me?

Play:

Say: You could have, because I've been able to come up with Doe.

Play:

Say: OT could mean "on topic", or "overtime" for that matter. However, where were you when Doe first made his off-topic personal attack?

Play:

Say: Threats are irrelevant. Hypocrites don't get very far.

Play:

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

Play:

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

Play:

Say: But I made comparisons are both longer.

Play: