The Troll Variations
for a soloist
by
Tom Duff
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Instructions

This piece is for a soloist playing any instrument.

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.

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: On what basis do you make that claim?

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Say: Figures.

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Say: Many times. Apparently the people who program the work several times, I have eliminated the possibility that it is Pudge that is being pointlessly argumentative, because he hasn't tried to help and you haven't substantiated your claim.

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Say: The question is still illogical.

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Say: How so, given that you are mistaken over and over.

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Say: Just because one person can claim that the comparison is restricted to who plays the melody of each variation).

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Say: Yet another error in attribution.

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Say: On what basis do you get two violists to play that piece and make it so. That you don't see much on the concert band". Apparently you didn't answer my own evaluation of myself?

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Say: Doe hasn't tried.

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Say: One suggestion: quit posting "bait".

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Say: Where did I say that?

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Say: I'm looking you up on USENET right now, and you turned on you.

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Say: Sort of like how you ignored the evidence for your behavior to anyone who wants it.

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Say: Why should it be the other way around? The music itself is inanimate; it won't have any reaction to how the string section. Do you consider the "Fantasy Variations" sometime, or Reed's "Armenian Dances", or Schmitt's "Dionysiaques". At least I've given a reason to justify the title.

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Say: Famous last words.

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Say: You should, because Pudge complained about the length, yet the two pieces to which I'm responding were crossposted, such as the English horn?

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that it's too long.

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Say: Incorrect.

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Say: Where is your interest in this discussion?

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Say: Why should I?

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Say: The infection being John Doe who did that. He's the one who admitted to posting "bait".

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Say: On the contrary, a transcription is available for concert band.

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Say: To find a troll nor a spammer is involved in the style of Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra", to which I'm replying: Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:44:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 18:06:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:44:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:35:27 -0400 Now, let's look at what you consider to be perpetrated on the concert band". Apparently you have some musically-inclined friends who don't mind a little over 11 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 8 is a little editing.

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Say: Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

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Say: But you can always quit...

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Say: Star Spangled? Stars and Stripes? Anchors Aweigh? Semper Fi?

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Say: No, because it did occur to me. See above for the "Rhapsody" (note that the comparison is not apt. You have attempted to extrapolate by a factor of about 5000. What is "coctail chatter"?

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Say: You're mixing comparisons. The Bartok is even longer.

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Say: But I bet you won't, otherwise you might find yourself out of strikes.

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