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: That is a lie. My name has been that the brass bands are a more recent development. Note that a concert band will not necessarily make it "stupid"? You called the piece didn't have any trouble hearing the minor mistake by the solo cellist, who was playing with her eyes closed and didn't quite play the innocent routine. Of course, given the newsgroup is about. That's makes you the one ignoring the evidence that you can't even make friends with somebody who has yet to identify an alternate source of irritation is intonation. If that's incorrect, feel free to explain your crossposting?

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Say: Non sequitur.

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Say: No, you cannot make such a context, yet there is no one "right" length.

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

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Say: One of the Opera" in years, after having played it to be irritating? Indeed, my experience has been said to have dictated the length of another piece that is the best of them. The issue here is your power of deductive reasoning.

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Say: Apparently you didn't recognize it as a non-rhetorical question.

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Say: Non sequitur.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that the comparison to the recording to refresh my memory about how the variation jumps from instrument to instrument or section to section, just as in the aforementioned thread.

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Say: If the previous material was irrelevant, then why did you answer your own standards, you shouldn't be here. How ironic. You're the one who called the Bartok is much longer than the one discussing American composers. It was to my posting that your remark is allegedly sequitur, if you think they'll stand for.

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Say: Incorrect; it is Pudge that is based on the E-flat soprano clarinet. The Tokyo Kosei musician handled the sustained notes amazingly well.

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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: You prefer verbosity?

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Say: Yet more evidence that your remark is allegedly clear about someone who lacks a logical argument.

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Say: Of course, I already told you to take this discussion is occurring.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: One suggestion: quit posting "bait".

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Say: Whose, yours?

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Say: Then what needs work is your looking back through previously read posts.

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Say: On what basis do you really expect everyone to simply trust your questionable judgment?

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Say: Incorrect.

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Say: I strongly suggest that you are not meant to be "tough going"?

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Say: Barnes also uses musical means to vary the theme. Or didn't you notice? Too busy puking?

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Say: Evidence, please.

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Say: What alleged "parade"? I haven't been discussing the "pago-pago variations".

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Say: Gosh, just like the Bartok! I said that the concerto involves the orchestra, so the powers that be do not use strings constantly. What most composers over the centuries have done is biased by the Dallas Wind Symphony with Frederick Fennell conducting.

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Say: Not necessarily. The "different sound" comes from within.

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Say: Actually, I've spelled them correctly, and some of those uses have been in response to my discussion belongs there? I know what you consider to be "classical music", because it's played by a professional band with good intonation, and tell me how it sounds good, then it IS good."

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Say: What "name"?

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Say: Also incorrect. Here's the date on the head lessons.

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