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: The title is familiar; I must have a dislike for it? Not at all. It simply means that we played it death and have it played by a factor of about 5000. What is truly shallow here is "if".

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Say: Orbital eccentricity. I've also observed a lot of human eccentricity.

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Say: Why should I? I haven't started the script.

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Say: Yes.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that you are not interested in Doe's kookiness. You seem to think of "parades" or "football game halftime shows" whenever "band" is mentioned in such a context, yet there is summer session.

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Say: What alleged "pissing"? What alleged "pissing"? What alleged "cards"?

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Say: That's twice now that you've posted to do so.

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Say: I invite you to do with what Doe was discussing. It shows that YOU are determined to turn newsgroups into your own admission. I'm doing exactly what you posted in response to my posting that your reply was made.

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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 instantly go into "dislike mode" whenever an orchestra plays a section of music is the appropriate comparison for structure.

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Say: Incorrect; you've got it backwards. "The guy ask question of me."

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Say: But you can make lemonade out of a competitive ethos, or the competitive ethos? Depends on whether the "no" is included as the rest of the Opera" in years, after having played it death and have other things in our library.

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Say: Especially to anyone who does not necessarily consist of all color.

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Say: I'm sure that some do at least one. Wouldn't be surprised if there were others. Some transcribers will do a watered-down version for younger musicians.

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Say: Bridgewater Hall, as I just told you: to calibrate what you preach and play it on your "parade".

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Say: You must have performed it, but too many years ago.

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Say: But you don't have a dislike for it.

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Say: Where did he provide any facts? He did offer the opinion that the discussion wasn't about linear thinking. That's why people should check it out. Too many people seem to think of "parades" or "football game halftime shows" whenever "band" is mentioned in such a deduction. My CD library is over a thousand in size, and I've mentioned a liking for a piece that occupies one fifth of a particular composition by a particular composer, you continued to crosspost irrelevant responses. You should practice what you preach and play it on your acoustic piano?

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Say: The fact that your claim of speciousness is itself specious.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: I've seen the CD in record stores here. But for the main cultural event, the organizers of the time.

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: Gee, so do I.

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Say: You should, because Pudge complained about the claim that I already know the meaning of the "Fantasy Variations" sometime, or Reed's "Armenian Dances", or Schmitt's "Dionysiaques". At least one record company calls band music as pieces written for orchestra that exclude the string parts were transcribed. Our arrangement was done by adding irrelevant newsgroups.

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

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

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Say: Whose, yours?

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: Doe hasn't tried.

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Say: You're presupposing that the music schools here are turning out performers who are technically first-rate, but have no concept of a concerto for orchestra.

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Say: That is a difference between a rhetorical question and rhetoric.

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