Tony Matthews: The Thoughts of Scrapin' Suzy

The Suzuki Association of the Americas aspires to improve the quality of life in the Americas through Suzuki education. They seek to create a learning community, which embraces excellence and nurtures the human spirit.

They provide a means whereby beginners can learn the violin without having to worry about reading music at an early age. One of those pieces, in the first book, is the Perpetual Motion; a fine piece for using all four fingers on the D string.

However, after seeing a performance of it, my heart went out to the pianist who had nothing to do but play a sotto-voci, tonic-dominant oomp-pah accompaniment for 3 or 4 minutes straight....
I cracked and wrote this.

Performance Notes

This piece would work as a stand-alone Violin and Piano comedy piece, as the piece works as is. However, in performance subtle, physical indications could be enacted to indicate the thoughts and emotions of the players.

I see no reason why there shouldn’t be a third person, to narrate the thoughts.