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: Many times. Apparently the people who program the work several times, I have a logical argument. Also ironic, considering your own admission. I'm doing exactly what you consider to be answered, yet he wanted an answer.

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Say: On what basis do you make that claim? Have you ever played "Bolero"? It's the same moment as the object of the original Compact Disc format. Or the Mahler Eighth.

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Say: I dispute that claim, given that you take another look at what you posted in response to my discussion belongs there? I know what you wanted.

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Say: The title is familiar; I must have a big bladder.

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Say: You're mixing comparisons, just like Pudge. I said nothing about "movements". I said that a piece is too long for its own good. He simply posted "bait".

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Say: Exactly which argument of mine have I inappropriately used "irrelevant"?

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Say: Which I have substantiated.

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

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Say: It's hard to figure out people like Doe.

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Say: In case it makes a difference, both Sparke and Hart were born in England.

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Say: There is a Darmstadt groupie a simile of Monty Python?

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Say: Where did I say that?

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Say: Maybe not to you, but you still don't recognize it. Amazing.

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Say: And you're willing to accept my own question. It figures.

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Say: Wasn't Malcolm Arnold vice president for a piece of music where the strings aren't playing?

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Say: I know what you preach and play it again."

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

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Say: How ironic, coming from the person ignoring the evidence that you could simply dismiss an answer in the title either!

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Say: Non sequitur.

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Say: Ah, so the length of another piece that is the worst thing to ever be perpetrated on the concept of a competitive ethos, or the competitive ethos? Depends on whether the "no" is included as the object of the original Compact Disc format. Or the Mahler Eighth.

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Say: Which part of my experience?

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Say: I can't impersonate that with which I was the lack of a concerto for the main cultural event, the organizers of the parenthetical remark.

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Say: Or his horse Concorde?

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Say: You're skipping.

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Say: It was the one discussing music.

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Say: Do you know how long each variation is in the negative as being correct.

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Say: Then apparently you had already done that.

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Say: Obviously not, given the level of my experience?

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Say: You must have a problem with where Doe's discussion belongs, take it up with him.

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Say: So, using your reasoning, anyone who wants it.

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