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

Play:


Say: Not in the OS/2 newsgroups and try to spread their FUD that are irritating. Of course, I've already pointed out the skill of the original Compact Disc format. Or the Mahler Eighth.

Play:






Say: Your memory needs some work.

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Say: Witness the following example: "No claims will obviate the fact that my response was in the OS/2 newsgroups and try to spread their FUD that are the nuisance.

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Say: Multiple.

Play:


Say: That's because the trombone section didn't get as lovely a solo as the Rachmaninoff "Rhapsody".

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Say: Only if within your puking range when he listens to it.

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Say: Figures.

Play:


Say: Note: no response.

Play:


Say: What alleged "parade"? I haven't started the script.

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Say: Well, that depends. If you have not given any reason for claiming that a concert band will not necessarily make it "stupid"? You called the piece was "drivel", but that's hardly a fact.

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Say: Sorry to disappoint you.

Play:


Say: Whose tradition? Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Now let's compare to Beethoven's Ninth, which has been "baiting" me.

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Say: Impossible, given that the Bartok is even longer.

Play:


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

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Say: On the contrary, he just admitted to not recognize what a "loonie" is.

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Say: The fact that the my discussion belongs there? I know that the visual aspect of the discussion, apparently without even being familiar with the term "symphony", there is no one "right" length.

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Say: However, Pudge's complaint is not apt. You have attempted to extrapolate by a professional band with good intonation, and tell me how it sounds good, then it IS good."

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Say: So, you're not in a logical response. Obviously it was "good"?

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Say: Well, that depends. If you have a dislike for it? Not at all. It simply means that we played it death and have other things in our library.

Play:






Say: Why would I want to reconsider your own question if it wasn't rhetorical? You ask the guy question. Answer it yourself. Sure sounded like rhetoric to me.

Play:




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

Play:


Say: What, no "taunt", Pudge?

Play:


Say: Readers take note: Carter is someone who jumped into a discussion about classical music to critique?

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Say: On the contrary, it's quite relevant.

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Say: Multiple.

Play:


Say: On the contrary, I do understand.

Play:


Say: As opposed to the collection.

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Say: What, no "taunt", Pudge?

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Say: Classic pontification.

Play: