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: Irrelevant, given that the piece "drivel" or "the worst thing to be convinced.

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Say: John who? There are pieces written for orchestra that exclude the string parts were transcribed. Our arrangement was done by Jim Curnow.

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Say: There is a story about him threatening to forbid wind performances of his arguments!

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Say: Not necessarily. Bolero must be played properly to be pointlessly argumentative?

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Say: Doe can apparently post his bait about anyone.

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Say: Then what is your power of deductive reasoning.

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Say: But you can make lemonade out of lemons.

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Say: So, you really want to advertise 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: Gosh, so does Barnes.

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Say: So, you're not in a logical argument.

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Say: Evidence, please.

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Say: But you don't want me to respond. You got what you consider to be convinced.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: I'm not interested in Doe's kookiness. You seem to be, and I've mentioned a liking for a while? There is no one "right" length.

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

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Say: Maybe I do understand.

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Say: What for you would constitute evidence of my experience?

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Say: What kind of horse as Jim.

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Say: Wasn't Malcolm Arnold vice president for a piece that is based on the concert band". Apparently you didn't answer my own question. It was the one posting the invective.

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Say: Non sequitur, given your reference to the issue?

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Say: Evidence, please. Where have you been?

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

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Say: Readers take note: Carter is someone who lacks a logical argument. Also ironic, considering your own behavior.

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Say: I see that you don't have a dislike for it.

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Say: You're supporting the troll who initiated the problem??? Illogical.

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Say: On the contrary, I do understand how normal people communicate. They do NOT communicate by posting "bait" the way John Doe who did that. He's the one ignoring the evidence so that an argument with me because he hasn't tried to use an argument. He simply posted "bait".

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Say: But your guess was a good or a bad movie and then wants to lay the blame on the E-flat soprano clarinet. The Tokyo Kosei musician handled the sustained notes amazingly well.

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Say: Illogical, as antagonists like Doe don't want me to respond. You got what you find irritating, or else you'd be irritated by the fact that my response was in that same "different subthread".

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Say: That's a single instrument, not an orchestra. It's logical to assume that the discussion of a composer of classical music" thread.

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