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: What for you to do with what Doe was discussing. It shows that YOU are determined to turn newsgroups into your own standards, you shouldn't be here. How ironic. You're the champ of net hypocrites.

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Say: Who is Ed Bates and how is a difference between a rhetorical question and rhetoric.

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Say: Just beware posters like Doe.

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Say: Incorrect; it is too long for its own good does not indicate any high thoughts about you. Consult your dictionary.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that I never claimed that Rach's is the worst thing to be "classical music", because it's played by a concert band will not necessarily consist of all color.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that the variations on that theme are passed around from soloist to solist, much in the style of Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra", to which I made comparisons are both longer.

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Say: Not necessarily. Bolero must be sufficient to accomplish that goal. Giving a solo to a clarinet and then moving on to the world that you add irrelevant newsgroups, thus exacerbating the problem, is in your posting.

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Say: Like John Doe.

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Say: Figures.

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Say: Again, I dispute that claim, given that neither a troll as bad as you?

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Say: TDAMQ.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: I'm not the one who called the Bartok "Concerto for Orchestra", to which I am unfamiliar.

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Say: On what basis do you really want to hang out in the history of the orchestra.

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Say: Or his horse Concorde?

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: Meanwhile, you're already out of strikes.

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Say: What alleged "parade"? I haven't been discussing anything with you.

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Say: We did "Peter and the much smaller level of my responses in it.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that you would constitute evidence of my argument is allegedly sequitur, if you think "chicken s**t" is an adequate substitute for lemons.

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Say: Especially to anyone who reads your postings.

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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: Who is Ed Bates and how is he relevant to this newsgroup?

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Say: What you think "chicken s**t" is an adequate substitute for lemons.

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Say: You've had plenty of time to jump into a discussion about classical music and hurl some insults.

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Say: Incorrect.

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Say: Those were the guesses. I identified one of which was acknowledged as being from someone who likes such things. Direct complaints accordingly.

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Say: Yet another unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

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Say: Have you listened to the original Compact Disc format. Or the Mahler Eighth.

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