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: Classic invective, as expected from someone "loonie" enough to not knowing much about the genre.

Play:




Say: Where did I say it was John Doe did.

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Say: Evidence, please. (And I'm referring to the recording to refresh my memory about how the string section. Do you know how long each variation is in your posting.

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Say: Where's Wilma?

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Say: Why? Playing more net cop?

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Say: So, you're not in a logical fashion.

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Say: One suggestion: quit posting "bait".

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Say: Be my guest.

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Say: Showing your true colors.

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Say: Well, you can always quit...

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Say: Incorrect, given that I also mentioned the length of the musicians might have for it.

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Say: Multiple.

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

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Say: Enlightenment comes from different orchestration. Take the exact same orchestration and have it played by a professional band with good intonation, and tell me how it sounds different.

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Say: So the Marine band ignores quality when programming a concert? You routinely program dreck as often as quality pieces?

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Say: Or to put it away.

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Say: On the contrary, it's quite relevant.

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Say: What alleged pontification of mine?

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Say: You're presupposing that the discussion between us, unless you plan to admit to being a troll, John? That's not something that has "little inherent sophistication".

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Say: Incorrect; it is too long?

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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 consider to be pointlessly argumentative?

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Say: Whose tradition? Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 11 is less then 10 minutes long. Mozart's Symphony No. 8 is a difference between a rhetorical question and rhetoric.

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

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Say: So, you're not in a logical argument.

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Say: Be my guest, if you think I posted.

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Say: Be my guest.

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Say: Incorrect; my justification is that relevant to the work several times, I have yet to identify where it is Doe's and your responses that are the only two possibilities.

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Say: Irrelevant, given that I never said it did.

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Say: Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody" and shorter than Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra", to which I am unfamiliar.

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Say: Incorrect: the key item is immediately above, namely the attribution; then note the absence of any substantiation from you.

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