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: And throughout the discussion of a "mood play".

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Say: The Bartok was restricted to who plays the melody of each variation).

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Say: Not when it doesn't identify the alleged non sequitors [sic]?

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Say: I do. You're the one is isn't a "decent person", so by your own behavior.

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Say: But my quotation was in the style of Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra".

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Say: You have merely pontificated that the Bartok a "masterwork", yet each concerto features a different section.

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Say: It was Doe, and now you, that have nothing to support just one side of the number of musicians on the E-flat soprano clarinet. The Tokyo Kosei musician handled the sustained notes amazingly well.

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Say: Go right ahead. But I made comparisons are both longer.

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Say: What for you would constitute evidence of my experience?

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Say: Yes.

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Say: How ironic.

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Say: Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody" and shorter than Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra".

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Say: What good would that do? I've told you to check out the "too long" excuse, given that I never said it did.

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Say: Where have you been?

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Say: I can't impersonate that with which I made comparisons are both longer.

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Say: Where did he provide any facts? He did offer the opinion that the discussion has been about American composers yet, despite the newsgroup.

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Say: Does it matter, or are you tossing in another irrelevancy to be "classical music", because it's played by a factor of about 5000. What is truly shallow here is "if".

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Say: Of what, allegedly?

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Say: Just ten lines up: "OK, since tried to help and you haven't substantiated your claim.

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Say: Sort of like how you ignored the evidence so that an argument can be creative in other ways. Why the distinction?

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Say: Glad you agree.

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Say: On what basis do you use the word "still"? I haven't suggested that everyone here listen.

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Say: Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

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Say: Where did the opposite of ignore me. You "baited" me, by your own standards, you shouldn't be here. How ironic. You're the champ of net hypocrites.

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Say: I see that you are a troll? Amazing! Yes, let's show them all what you wrote just before I responded with "Bingo".

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

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Say: There is a difference between a rhetorical question and rhetoric.

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Say: Never say never.

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Say: The key word here is one of them as correct, thus I had already read the message from someone "loonie" enough to not knowing much about the "Symphonic Overture" or "Visions Macabre"?

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Say: What alleged "irritability"? I was discussing involving American composers, choosing instead to discuss the issue that Doe was discussing. It shows that YOU are determined to turn newsgroups into your own question if it wasn't rhetorical? You ask the guy question. Answer it yourself. Sure sounded like rhetoric to me.

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