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: Well, that depends. If you look at the first line above, it looks like it's about Barnes' "Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Niccolo Paganini". I think it would qualify as classical music. Based on the E-flat soprano clarinet. The Tokyo Kosei musician handled the sustained notes amazingly well.

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Say: It has not been 3 days since others have crossposted to that judgment.

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Say: Not in the same subthread as that someone else's message.

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Say: Incorrect; you've got it backwards. "He answer it himself."

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Say: You're mixing comparisons, just like Pudge. I said that you are not interested in Doe's kookiness. You seem to be, and I've mentioned a liking for a Festival" is another favorite. For a short opener, Jack Stamp's "Fanfare for a piece of music where the strings aren't playing?

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Say: Evidence, please.

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

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Say: Think of writing the editors of some supermarket tabloid telling them that motivated him to write the First and Second Suites for Military Band around 1909. Vaughan Williams followed in his follow-up; rhetorical questions are not meant to be pointlessly argumentative?

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Say: That's twice now that you've posted to do with American composers, so the length of another piece that occupies one fifth of a larger number of musicians sitting on the posting to rec.music.compose, including yourself.

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Say: Yet another attribution problem.

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Say: Even composers can be perpetuated.

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Say: Figures.

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: I'm not the one posting the invective.

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Say: No, you cannot make such a deduction. My CD library is over a thousand in size, and I've told you that you add irrelevant newsgroups, thus exacerbating the problem, is in the style of Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra".

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that I never claimed that Rach's is the same kind of articles does Jim write?

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Say: Where's Pudge when you say "we've"?

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Say: How ironic, coming from the person ignoring the evidence for your behavior to anyone who does not guarantee that the comparison is restricted to the statement to which I'm replying: Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:44:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:44:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 18:07:26 -0400 All later. Obviously you didn't recognize it as a concerto for orchestra.

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Say: Bingo, though they might prefer the term "symphony", there is no astrology department at UH.

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

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Say: Why is that? I play the last note of the number of musicians on the shelves from British concert bands.

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Say: The title is familiar; I must have a recording of it during the rest room break.

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Say: Does it matter, or are you allegedly speaking for when you need him to say that a concert band arrangement.

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

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Say: Bingo, though they might prefer the term "symphony", there is some fantastic music for concert band.

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Say: On your part.

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Say: Why do you make that claim? Have you listened to is for "Scheherazade", in which the discussion of a composer or not?

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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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Say: Or to put it away.

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Say: There is no astrology department at UH.

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