Comments from the composer: (I edited the place-name that the composer had included in hopes of maintaining total anonymity.)
"So here's my submission for the fall competition. Its a scherzo for a string quartet movement in rondo form, using material derived from the waltz itself. The main theme starts off with the diminution of the competition's material, followed by borrowings of other parts of the waltz. The second subject (b33-40) paraphrases the waltz material from b18 to 20. The third