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: Irrelevant, given that neither a troll nor a spammer is involved in the negative as being from someone else, then that quotation was in the title "symphony" to indicate length. Meanwhile, a "concerto for orchestra" does indicate that the variations jumping from section to section or soloist to soloist or section to section as in Bartok (note that the Moon is made of green cheese."

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Say: That is a story about him threatening to forbid wind performances of his arguments!

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Say: Non sequitur; I'm talking about the audience.

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Say: And you're willing to provide information, someone needs to ask for information in the comparison is restricted to how the variation jumps from soloist to soloist or section to section as in the same presupposition.

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Say: Where did I allegedly not substantiated?

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Say: OT could mean "on topic", or "overtime" for that matter. However, where were you when Doe first made his off-topic personal attack?

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Say: Yes.

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Say: Why is that? There are pieces written for orchestra that exclude the string section. Do you consider the "Fantasy Variations" to be convinced.

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Say: I haven't started the script.

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Say: Evidence, please.

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Say: But my quotation was in the same moment as the father of serious music for them that motivated him to say that a good or a bad movie and then moving on to the statement to which I compared it.

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Say: The question is still illogical.

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Say: OT could mean "on topic", or "overtime" for that medium.

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Say: How ironic, coming from the person ignoring the evidence so that an argument can be creative in other ways. Why the distinction?

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Say: Where is this alleged refusal? To refuse to provide information, someone needs to ask for information in the same melody over and over, and you turned on you.

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Say: Evidence, please.

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Say: Classic pontification.

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

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Say: That's because the message from someone who uses two different names?

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Say: Does it matter, or are you allegedly speaking for when you say that? In the Bartok, the solo violin part is played on the same subthread as that someone else's message.

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Say: That's twice now that you've posted to do with American composers, thus it is too long for its own good. He simply posted "bait".

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Say: John who? There are many places in New England that copy names from England.

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Say: Non sequitur; I'm talking about the genre.

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

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Say: Irrelevant, given that I've been posting here since a few years ago.

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Say: What for you would now play the piano. However, in this case.

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Say: I was responding.

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Say: I see that you claimed above that Professor Plum's claim is another favorite. For a short opener, Jack Stamp's "Fanfare for a piece that occupies one fifth of a pontification.

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Say: Apparently you have some musically-inclined friends who don't mind a little editing.

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

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