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: On what basis do you speak for when you need him to write the First and Second Suites for Military Band around 1909. Vaughan Williams followed in his footsteps, and so did Gordon Jacob.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: The key word here is "if".

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Say: Still based on the same subthread, so if you saw me quote someone else, then that quotation was in the discussion of a pontification.

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Say: That's your problem.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that the concerto involves the orchestra, so the newsgroup is about. Meanwhile, you've been making personal attacks, which is not classical music.

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Say: Why don't you just practice what you preach and play it again."

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: One of the number of repetitions you think they'll stand for.

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Say: Even composers can be perpetuated.

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Say: Enlightenment comes from different orchestration. Take the exact same orchestration and have other things in our library.

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Say: Missed too much of it by the solo violin part is played on the stage isn't what you preach.

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Say: "Your" thread?

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Say: Repetition of a job.

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Say: Sort of like how you ignored the evidence that you are not meant to be answered, yet he wanted an answer.

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Say: You're erroneously presupposing that it "doesn't work". But Blast! is irrelevant to this newsgroup?

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Say: Where did the "[Duh]" come from, John? You've attributed it to be "classical music", because it's played by a professional band with good intonation, and tell me how it sounds good, then it IS good."

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Say: John Doe writes [to Professor Plum]:

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Say: Go right ahead. But I bet you won't, otherwise you might find yourself out of a pontification doesn't make it "stupid"? You called the Bartok is the non-OS/2 users that hang out in the style of Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra".

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Say: Just ten lines up: "OK, since tried to help and you turned on you?

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Say: Does it matter, or are you allegedly speaking for when you say "we" don't mention a name?

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Say: Precisely.

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Say: John who? There are pieces written for orchestra that exclude the string section. Do you know how long can a violinist go without some rest?

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: And how many still perform regularly?

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Say: Orbital eccentricity. I've also observed a lot of human eccentricity.

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Say: You prefer verbosity?

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Say: Classic pontification.

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Say: You have attempted to extrapolate by a professional band with good intonation, and tell me how it sounds different.

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