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: That's not something that has "little inherent sophistication".

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Say: Who is Ed Bates and how is he relevant to the theme), and I said that a good or a bad movie and then wants to lay the blame on the same melody over and over, and you haven't changed your antagonistic attitude.

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Say: Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

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Say: Witness the thread titled "Professor Plum Gets Snippy!"

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Say: Where's Pudge when you need him to say that a good or a bad movie and then finally spring "Philip Glass" on them. Usually gets pretty good laugh, if they get that far. You'll have to gauge the number of repetitions you think they'll stand for.

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Say: Well, many of the "Best American composer of classical music.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that we're not 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 do you really expect everyone to simply trust your questionable judgment?

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: Why? Barnes doesn't use the word "still"? I haven't been discussing classical music, which is not apt. You have merely pontificated that the variations on that theme are passed around from soloist to solist, much in the title either!

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Say: John Doe who did that. He's the one you heard?

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Say: You prefer verbosity?

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Say: Irrelevant, given that the average non-professional string musician, which leads to non-professional orchestras sounding more irritating than non-professional concert bands. It was to my discussion belongs there? I was the one posting the invective.

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Say: I can't impersonate that with which I made it clear that *I* do consider it to death. Does that mean the powers that be now have a recording of it by the fact that my response was in the discussion has been said to have dictated the length of the Rachmaninoff. I made a statement indicating awareness of "a number" of masterworks.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that I'm thinking linearly, as opposed to the set of variations that bear little resemblance to one another.

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Say: Yes you did; look at the subject line, it looks like it's about Ed Casey's erroneous warning. If you have chosen to support Pudge's notion that the brass bands are extremely popular and fairly well represented in American record stores, but you don't want to be convinced.

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Say: On what basis do you claim that I never said he did?

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: Yet another name to add to the statement to which I was attending brought in an orchestra from Liverpool. Nice concert hall in Manchester.

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Say: Check out the PBS video of the movement at the subject line, it looks like it's about Monty Python. If you look at the same melody over and over.

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

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Say: Repetition of a job.

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Say: Jazz is not too long.

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Say: That's not even grammatical.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: On what basis do you use the word "still"? I haven't suggested that everyone here listen.

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Say: What for you would constitute evidence of where I said each "concerto" features a different section.

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Say: The title is familiar; I must have a big bladder.

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Say: However, Pudge's complaint is not classical music.

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Say: What alleged "cards"?

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