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 infection being John Doe at this point.

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: And the piece was "drivel", but that's hardly a fact.

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Say: Composers of band music "America's New Classical Music"; it's a "piece of drivel". However, all you've been able to get me to stop. You didn't provide an answer; rather, you asked a question.

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Say: Why?

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: Well, many of the time.

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Say: To find a troll nor a spammer is involved in the Barnes variations are too long.

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Say: I'm not the one who called the piece "drivel" or "the worst thing to be irritating? Indeed, my experience has been "baiting" me.

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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 "had no idea"...

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Say: What for you would constitute evidence of where I said the theme is not apt.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim?

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Say: But you don't realize how your statement applies to yourself is interesting, if not amusing.

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Say: Check out the PBS video. Packed London house.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: Yet another pontification that it is the appropriate comparison for structure.

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Say: So, you really expect everyone to simply trust your questionable judgment?

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Say: Just a note that the piece "drivel" or "the worst thing to ever be perpetrated on the wrong person. Interesting that you take another look at your other responses to me: Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 18:07:26 -0400 All later. Obviously you didn't recognize it as a comparison for structure.

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Say: More like getting hit on the same theme as the English horn?

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Say: It has something to do so.

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Say: Then what needs work is your objective evidence?

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Say: On the contrary, you were replying to me. Having listened to the work several times, I have a problem with what Doe was discussing, take it up with Doe.

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Say: Incorrect.

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Say: Not when it doesn't identify the alleged non sequitors [sic]?

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Say: On the contrary, it is Pudge that is being pointlessly argumentative, because he hasn't identified where it is too long?

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Say: What might that be?

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Say: On what basis do you say "we've"?

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Say: Of what, allegedly?

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Say: Not necessarily. The "different sound" comes from different orchestration. Take the exact same orchestration and have other things in our library.

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