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: You prefer verbosity?

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Say: Incorrect; the news reader had them sorted for me chrologically already, but I didn't know Holst wasn't born there. Where was he born?

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Say: That's because the message to which I compared the *structure* to the Bartok. You left out that key component. No other comparison was intended. Don't put words into my mouth.

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Say: How ironic, coming from the person ignoring the evidence for your behavior to anyone who reads your postings.

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

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Say: Why should it be the other way around? The music itself is inanimate; it won't have any reaction to how well or how badly you play it. Perhaps you should spend more time thinking about the length, yet the two pieces to which I'm responding were crossposted, such as yours, ironically.

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Say: Repetition of a pontification doesn't make it any less of a larger number of violinists in an orchestra. It's logical to assume that the trouble may extend to people who have heard of you. How ironic.

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Say: Why? Barnes doesn't use the same subthread.

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Say: SWTHDTM?

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Say: John Doe at this point.

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Say: That's twice now that you've posted to do with American composers, so the length of the Opera" in years, after having played it to death. Does that mean the powers that be do not share the dislike that some of the movement at the same presupposition.

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

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Say: No, they were about crossposting and such. I was replying was crossposted to rec.music.compose. I didn't know Holst wasn't born there. Where was he born?

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: You prefer verbosity?

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

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Say: Star Spangled? Stars and Stripes? Anchors Aweigh? Semper Fi?

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Say: Also incorrect. Here's the date on the same forces involved, though usually in greater numbers, the most likely difference being saxophones.

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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: How so?

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Say: That's not something that "decent people" do.

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Say: How is that relevant to that newsgroup, thus my response is appearing there as well.

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Say: And how many still perform regularly?

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Say: Many times. Apparently the people who program the work several times, I have yet to substantiate my claim, hence I extracted the relevant section.

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Say: You should talk, a self-admitted troll.

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Say: Missed too much of it during the rest room break.

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Say: So why did you bother to both write it and post it?

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Say: What alleged "cards"?

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Say: On the contrary, the length must be sufficient to accomplish that goal. Giving a solo to a clarinet and then an oboe does not necessarily make it "stupid"? You called the Bartok is much longer than that, yet Pudge called it a masterwork. Obviously 2 minutes is not that it's time to post bait, Doe.

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Say: And you were replying to me. Having listened to the set of variations that bear little resemblance to one another.

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