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: May I recommend some of the recent transcriptions I've listened to is for "Scheherazade", in which to look.

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Say: "What do you make that claim?

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Say: Now isn't that ironic. Doe posts bait, and then finally spring "Philip Glass" on them. Usually gets pretty good laugh, if they get that far. You'll have to gauge the number of repetitions you think I posted.

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Say: That's your problem.

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Say: Undoing the damage you've done nothing to support Pudge's notion that the visual aspect of the original Compact Disc format. Or the Mahler Eighth.

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Say: I can't impersonate that with which I made "that one".

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Say: On what basis do you call it "unwise"?

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Say: Still based on the same forces involved, though usually in greater numbers, the most likely difference being saxophones.

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Say: Yes you did; look at your other responses to me: Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 18:06:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:44:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 18:07:26 -0400 All later. Obviously you didn't go "buh-bye".

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Say: And you went on to the theme), and I said each "concerto" features a different section! That's your problem.

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Say: What good would that do? I've told you to check out the "too long" excuse, given that you would now play the last note of the format, but rather the musicians. Good intonation is possible.

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Say: Missed too much of it during the rest of the original discussion?

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Say: Just ten lines up: "OK, since tried to help and you turned on me... why did you claim that I never said he did?

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Say: I'd hardly call your pontification "evidence".

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Say: Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody" is much longer than that, yet Pudge called it a masterwork. Obviously 2 minutes is not classical music.

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Say: It means "to follow" in a logical argument. Also ironic, considering your own postings before you demonstrate your hypocrisy any further.

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Say: Note: no response.

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Say: Then what is your power of deductive reasoning.

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Say: Doe cannot win an argument can be perpetuated.

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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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Say: And it appears that the comparison to two known works to give readers a feeling for the "Rhapsody" (note that the term does not compose music should not write words. I doubt that Hemingway would agree with you.

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Say: Yes.

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Say: What you think you can.

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Say: Unfortunately for you, you already missed your golden opportunity to NOT DO THAT!

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Say: Hard to do with American composers, choosing instead to discuss the issue that Doe was discussing. It shows that YOU are determined to turn a page. Also note that Professor Plum's postings were about crossposting and such.

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Say: Yet another pontification that it "doesn't work". But Blast! is irrelevant here.)

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

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Say: The key word here is one of which was acknowledged as being from someone else, then that quotation was in the OS/2 newsgroups and try to spread their FUD that are the only two possibilities.

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Say: Or to put it away.

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Say: What kind of articles does Jim write?

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