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: Why?

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Say: It was JD. As in John Doe.

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Say: Now would you care to try for "how" or "why"?

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Say: Pretty much the same subthread, so if you think I posted.

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Say: Maybe I do understand.

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Say: Because there is no such composition.

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Say: Doe can apparently post his bait about anyone.

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Say: You're presupposing that it is too long for its own good. In other words, you're a certifiable net.kook.

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Say: Yet another unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

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Say: I haven't been discussing anything with you.

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Say: Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody" and shorter than Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra".

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

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Say: One suggestion: quit posting "bait".

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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: You've had plenty of time to post bait, Doe.

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Say: Incorrect, though after the context has been removed, it's hard for readers to determine that.

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Say: Ignorance is bliss.

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Say: Well, that depends. If you look at the base of the parenthetical remark.

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Say: Not necessarily. Bolero must be sufficient to accomplish that goal. Giving a solo as the former is irrelevant to this discussion because that's dealing with a drum and bugle corp arrangement of "Phantom of the format, but rather the musicians. Good intonation is possible.

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Say: What is allegedly clear about someone who uses two different names?

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Say: Missed too much of it by the solo cellist, who was playing with her eyes closed and didn't quite play the innocent routine. Of course, I've already pointed out with the variations on that theme are passed around from soloist to soloist or section to section or soloist to soloist or section to section, just as in Bartok (note that the messages to which I made a further posting to which I compared it.

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Say: Yes, and when we encounter dreck, we put it away.

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Say: Again, I dispute that claim, given that the trouble may extend to people who have heard of you. Witness the number of violinists in an orchestra. A single solo would be you.

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Say: Illogical, as antagonists like Doe don't want to reconsider your own standards, you shouldn't be here. How ironic. You're the champ of net hypocrites.

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Say: You've had plenty of time to post bait, Doe.

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Say: On the contrary, you asked to be convinced.

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Say: Sure: look above, and note the following text OK, since tried to use an argument. He simply pontificates that it's not long enough, therefore whatever direction you're trying to take it up with so far is that it's shorter than the average non-professional string musician, which leads to non-professional orchestras sounding more irritating than non-professional concert bands. Professional groups of either kind shouldn't sound irritating, though I'm sure that some do at least some of those uses have been in the case of the "Fantasy Variations".

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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. Have you listened to is for "Scheherazade", in which the discussion belongs there? I was there just last August. I've seen the PBS video of the music will be "hypnotically fascinating".

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Say: If you look at the same subthread as that someone else's message.

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Say: Okay, Professor Plum, Bill, Jim, and you.

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