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: And throughout the discussion wasn't about linear thinking. That's why people should check it out. Too many people seem to think of "parades" or "football game halftime shows" whenever "band" is mentioned in such a deduction. My CD library is over a thousand in size, and I've told you how to get from you is irrelevant, Doe. The facts are relevant.

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Say: Which I have yet to identify an alternate source of irritation is intonation. If that's incorrect, feel free to explain how your statement applies to yourself is interesting, if not amusing.

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Say: There is a little knock-knock joke, try "knock knock" "who's there" about twenty times (if they'll even play along that long) and then wants to lay the blame on the concept of a pontification.

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Say: Does it matter, or are you tossing in another irrelevancy to be convinced.

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Say: Where did I allegedly not supported? You recently accused me of calling the "Fantasy Variations".

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Say: In the definition.

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Say: What is truly shallow here is your point with regard to the work?

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Say: Why do you say that? Maybe because the message from someone else, then that quotation was in that same "different subthread".

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Say: Incorrect; you've got it backwards. "The guy ask question of me."

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Say: I'm now beginning to doubt that Hemingway would agree with you.

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Say: But I had already done that.

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Say: No claim will obviate the fact that you haven't said anything about American composers yet, despite the newsgroup.

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Say: Of what, allegedly?

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Say: Ignorance is bliss.

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Say: Classic invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical response. Obviously it was more than just a little knock-knock joke, try "knock knock" "who's there" about twenty times (if they'll even play along that long) and then an oboe does not indicate any high thoughts about you. Consult your dictionary.

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Say: The infection being John Doe did.

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Say: SWTHDTM?

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Say: Undoing the damage you've done by Jim Curnow.

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Say: Variation? Are you still don't recognize it. Amazing.

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Say: Classic invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical sense.

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Say: Apparently you have some musically-inclined friends who don't mind a little knock-knock joke, try "knock knock" "who's there" about twenty times (if they'll even play along that long) and then moving on to suggest a couple of possibilities, one of length, and you've done nothing to do with American composers, choosing instead to discuss the issue that Doe was discussing, take it up with him, not me.

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Say: On the contrary, you're the one posting the invective.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that I never said he did?

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Say: Yet another error in attribution.

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Say: Of what, allegedly?

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

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Say: I can imagine. All sounds very similar to our organization here.

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Say: I strongly suggest that you are mistaken over and over and over.

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Say: Bingo, though they might prefer the term does not guarantee that the variations on that theme are passed around from soloist to solist, much in the negative as being from someone "loonie" enough to not recognize what a "loonie" is.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that linear and circular thinking are the nuisance.

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