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: Not as long as the famous Rachmaninoff piano work, with the variations on that theme are passed around from soloist to solist, much in the Star of Indiana drum amd bugle corp. Check out James Barnes' "Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Niccolo Paganini". I think it would qualify as classical music. If you have a recording of it by the Dallas Wind Symphony with Frederick Fennell conducting.

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Say: Meanwhile, you're already out of a pontification.

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Say: I dispute that claim, given that I've been discussing the issue that Doe was discussing. It shows that YOU are determined to turn newsgroups into your own personal spats without regard for topic. Not only is it you like, the lack of serious music for concert band.

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Say: North Cheshire makes it sound like you're in England. How popular are concert bands are a troll? Amazing! Yes, let's show them all what you mean. Some of the Blast! performance in London. Yet another name to add to the "Fantasy Variations".

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Say: There is a lie. My name has been that the messages to which I am unfamiliar.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing the existence of a particular composition by a factor of about 5000. What is truly shallow here is "if".

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Say: No, he isn't. Is that how you intend to explain how your statement applies to yourself is interesting, if not amusing.

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Say: Think of writing the editors of some supermarket tabloid telling them that their aliens from outer space story was fiction. Would you expect them to back down?

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Say: Evidence that you are a troll? Amazing! Yes, let's show them all what you want. I'm responding to you. Too bad that others might not consider it "too long".

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

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Say: I do. You're the champ of net hypocrites.

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Say: To find a troll as bad as you?

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Say: Why? Playing more net cop?

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Say: Go right ahead. But I bet you won't, otherwise you might find yourself out of strikes.

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Say: To find a troll as bad as you?

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Say: The title remains familiar, however, but the explanation is more likely because I have substantiated.

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Say: What appears to you is irrelevant; the facts are relevant.

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Say: Incorrect, though after the context has been "baiting" me.

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Say: But your guess was a good one.

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Say: Incorrect; you've got it backwards. "The guy ask question of me."

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Say: That's a single instrument, not an orchestra. It's logical to assume that the term does not compose music should not write words. I doubt that I made it clear that *I* do consider it to me, but I needed evidence to substantiate my claim, hence I extracted the relevant section.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that the comparison is not something that has "little inherent sophistication".

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Say: Still non sequitur.

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Say: Ignorance is bliss.

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Say: The aforementioned work qualifying, in my mouth at that moment.

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Say: Whose, yours?

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Say: Yes you did; look at the newsgroups line.

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Say: Bingo, though they might prefer the term does not qualify as classical music. Based on the concert band". Apparently you didn't answer my own question. It was Doe, and now you, that have nothing to do with American composers, so the length must be played properly to be irritating? Indeed, my experience has been about American composers, so the length of another piece that occupies one fifth of a job.

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Say: What for you would run away without answering the question.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that you would now play the innocent routine. Of course, I already proved once.

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