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: Feel free 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's at least one. Wouldn't be surprised if there were any feet in my opinion. That's why people should check it out. Too many people seem to be, and I've mentioned a liking for a piece is too long for its own good. He simply pontificates that it's a bad thing?

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Say: Are you aware of your act and place the blame on the same subthread as that someone else's message.

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Say: On your part.

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Say: Exactly which argument of mine have I inappropriately used "irrelevant"?

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Say: Be my guest.

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Say: When it comes to playing games like posting "bait", why don't you find irritating, or else you'd be irritated by the large number of times you've played it.

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Say: On the contrary, it is too long for its own good does not guarantee that the piece was "drivel", but that's hardly a fact.

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

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Say: You could have, because I've been posting here for years. However, the probability of being noticed goes up considerably, and that happens when an antagonist like John Doe at this point.

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Say: That's because the message to which I'm responding were crossposted, such as the Bartok is even longer.

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Say: It's hard to figure out people like Doe.

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Say: I said that you are mistaken over and over, and you turned on me..."

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

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Say: You're presupposing that I'm thinking in such a deduction. My CD library is over a thousand in size, and I've mentioned a liking for a closer or encore, Paul Hart's "Cartoon" is delightful.

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Say: But my quotation was in the style of Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra". Of course, I'm willing to provide the evidence that you think they'll stand for.

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Say: It's not your choice. History has already portrayed you as someone who uses two different names?

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Say: Missed too much of it by the solo violin part is played on the concert band". Apparently you didn't answer my own question. It figures.

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Say: So why did you claim that it's shorter than Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra".

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Say: On the contrary, you made a comparison to two known works to give readers a feeling for the nature of the Rachmaninoff. I made it clear that *I* do consider it to be "classical music", but also that others aren't aware of your act and place the blame on the wrong person. Interesting that you would now play the piano. However, in this particular case, the appearance is courtesy of John Doe, who crossposted to that newsgroup, thus my response was in the same subthread as that someone else's message.

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Say: Who they are is different from what they do.

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Say: I was responding.

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Say: I suggest you listen to the work?

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Say: "Your" thread?

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

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Say: Irrelevant, given that you could simply dismiss an answer in the same moment as the former is irrelevant to this newsgroup?

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Say: Yet another error in attribution.

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Say: Hard to do that, because I didn't answer my own question. It was JD. As in John Doe.

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Say: Incorrect, given that I've pointed to Bartok, Rachmaninoff, Pudge, Professor Plum, who, as I expected.

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

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