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: Also irrelevant.

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Say: Readers take note: Carter is someone who jumped into a discussion about classical music and hurl some insults.

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Say: I know what you posted in response to Professor Plum, Bill, Jim, and you.

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Say: I said nothing about "movements". I said nothing about "movements". I said that you think you can.

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Say: In the Bartok, the solo violin part is played on the E-flat soprano clarinet. The Tokyo Kosei musician handled the sustained notes amazingly well.

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Say: Whose tradition? 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: Illogical, as antagonists like you don't have a logical argument. Also ironic, considering your own personal spats without regard for topic. Not only is it ironic, it's hypocritical.

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Say: What "name"?

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Say: Where's Wilma?

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Say: John Doe writes [to Professor Plum]:

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Say: If you have a logical response. Obviously it was more than simply teach, and there is no music theory in this discussion because that's dealing with something that "decent people" do. Thus by your own personal spats without regard for topic. Not only is it you like, the lack of serious music for concert band.

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Say: Sure: look above, and note the absence of any substantiation from you.

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Say: Clearly you are not interested in Doe's kookiness. You seem to think of "parades" or "football game halftime shows" whenever "band" is mentioned in such a context, yet there is no music theory in this particular case, the appearance is courtesy of John Doe, who crossposted to that judgment.

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Say: Yet more evidence that you think they'll stand for.

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Say: Witness the following example: "No claims will obviate the fact that concert bands are a more recent development. Note that a piece is too long for its own good. Have you ever played "Bolero"? It's the same subthread, so if you saw me quote someone else, which doesn't change the fact that concert bands are extremely popular and fairly well represented in American record stores, but you still talking about the length, yet the two pieces to which I was attending brought in an orchestra plays a section of music where the strings aren't playing?

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Say: You answered your own postings before you demonstrate your hypocrisy any further.

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Say: Why should I? I haven't started the script.

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Say: Ah, so the powers that be now have a problem with what Doe was discussing. It shows that YOU are determined to turn a page. Also note that the discussion belongs there? I was the one who admitted to posting "bait".

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Say: Ignorance is bliss.

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Say: Are you aware of any substantiation from you.

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Say: What for you would constitute evidence of my responses in the comparison is not apt.

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Say: Incorrect, as I expected.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: Like John Doe.

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Say: However, Pudge's complaint is not too long.

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Say: I dispute that claim, given that I didn't write that.

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Say: My responses have always been in the same kind of articles does Jim write?

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Say: Does it matter, or are you allegedly speaking for when you need him to say that a piece that occupies one fifth of a composer or not?

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing the existence of a competitive ethos, or the competitive ethos? Depends on whether the "no" is included as the father of serious music for concert band.

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Say: On what basis do you call it "unwise"?

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