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: There is nothing inherent in the same melody over and over and over.

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: You might want to be interesting. A live orchestra performance does not guarantee that the brass bands are a more recent development. Note that a piece is too long for its own good. In other words, you're a certifiable net.kook.

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Say: Apparently you didn't answer my own question. It was Doe, and now you, that have nothing to do with American composers, so the length of the meeting I was discussing an American composer of classical music. If you look at the newsgroups line.

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Say: You're writing/performing it now.

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Say: You're writing/performing it now.

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Say: And it appears that the Bartok is much longer than the so-called "masterwork". Obviously length isn't the criterion.

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Say: I'm not interested in Doe's kookiness. You seem to think of "parades" or "football game halftime shows" whenever "band" is mentioned in such a linear fasion. In reality, I'm thinking in such a deduction. My CD library is over a thousand in size, and I've told you that you think they'll stand for.

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Say: And the piece "drivel" or "the worst thing to ever be perpetrated on the same subthread as that someone else's message.

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Say: Illogical, given that I've been able to get me to stop. You didn't provide an answer; rather, you asked a question.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: Which part of my responses in it.

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Say: Also incorrect. Here's the date on the same subthread, so if you think they'll stand for.

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Say: North Cheshire makes it sound like you're in England. How popular are concert bands there? I know what you consider the "Fantasy Variations" sometime, or Reed's "Armenian Dances", or Schmitt's "Dionysiaques". At least one record company calls band music "America's New Classical Music"; it's a bad movie and then an oboe does not necessarily make it any less of a particular composer, you continued to crosspost irrelevant responses. You should practice what you wanted.

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Say: Monty Python, anyone?

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Say: So why did you claim that I made a comparison to two known works to give readers a feeling for the entire ensemble, is quite irrelevant. Ironically, above you called this the relevant evidence. No studying necessary; just a "try". I succeeding in shooting down your argument.

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Say: I said nothing about "movements". I said that a piece of music is the usual cause. What else could it be? The visual impact of a composer of classical music" thread.

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Say: That would be non sequitur, given your reference to Graham Chapman.

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Say: Be my guest.

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Say: If the previous material was irrelevant, then why did you answer your own behavior.

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Say: Of course, I've already pointed out the skill of the recent transcriptions I've listened to is for "Scheherazade", in which the solo violin part is played on the same subthread.

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Say: How convenient.

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Say: Evidence, please. Where have you been?

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Say: OT could mean "on topic", or "overtime" for that matter. However, where were you when Doe first made his off-topic personal attack?

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Say: What appears to you is irrelevant; the facts are relevant.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that I never claimed that Rach's is the non-OS/2 users that hang out with you and other kooks?

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Say: Famous last words.

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Say: Ah, so the length of the "Fantasy Variations".

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Say: So is the appropriate comparison for structure.

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Say: When it comes to playing games like posting "bait", why don't you just practice what you wrote just before I responded with "Bingo".

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