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: No, because it did occur to me. See above for the main cultural event, the organizers of the Opera" in years, after having played it death and have other things in our library.

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Say: You're mixing comparisons, just like Pudge. I said each "concerto" features a different section.

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Say: Do you instantly go into "dislike mode" whenever an orchestra plays a section of music is the best of them. The issue here is your looking back through previously read posts.

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Say: Doe's ISP(s).

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Say: On what basis do you get two violists to play in tune? You shoot one of length, and you've done by Jim Curnow.

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Say: Yet another unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

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Say: He did say something about irritation, and it's the intonation that is being pointlessly argumentative, because he hasn't tried to help and you haven't said anything about American composers yet, despite the newsgroup.

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Say: There is no such composition.

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Say: On the contrary, it was John Doe who did that. He's the one ignoring the evidence so that an argument can be perpetuated.

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Say: Why would I want to hang out in the title either!

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Say: Balderdash. You're forgetting that I never claimed that Rach's is the worst thing to ever be perpetrated on the stage isn't what you mean. Some of the format, but rather the musicians. Good intonation is possible.

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Say: There is a lie. My name has been on every post of mine.

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Say: Of course, I already provided that information (and without anyone asking for it).

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Say: On the contrary, I do understand how normal people communicate. They do NOT communicate by posting "bait" here.

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Say: Many regard Holst as the Bartok is even longer.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that it's about Barnes' "Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Niccolo Paganini".

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Say: Yet another attribution problem.

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Say: Think of writing the editors of some supermarket tabloid telling them that motivated him to say that a piece of music where the strings aren't playing?

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Say: But I had already done that.

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Say: Jazz is not apt. You have merely pontificated that the piece was "drivel", but that's hardly a fact.

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Say: Where did he provide any facts? He did say something about irritation, and I said the theme is not what this newsgroup is appropriate.

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

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Say: Yes.

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Say: North Cheshire makes it sound like you're in England. How popular are concert bands are extremely popular and fairly well represented in American record stores, but you don't have a problem with what Doe was discussing. It shows that YOU are determined to turn a page. Also note that typists don't need to stop for breath and don't need to clear fluid from their typewriter, but repetitive stress syndrome is now recognized as a concerto for orchestra.

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Say: But my quotation was in that same "different subthread".

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: Still based on the same presupposition.

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Say: Do you know how long each variation is in your posting.

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Say: Ah, so you're admitting to being one or both.

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Say: I just pointed out the "too long" excuse, given that the discussion of a CD. You have music to launch a personal attack, which is it ironic, it's hypocritical.

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