Sun dancing - Maggie Furtak

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"A fun, fast piece that gives the pianist a chance to shine. SATB with a handful of bars of soprano and alto divisi. Moderate difficulty. The text, from "Wasp Studies Afield," describes the mating dance of a cloud of solitary wasps, as observed by American husband and wife entomologists, Phil and Nellie Rau, near St. Louis in the early 1900s. Great for a concert with a science, nature, or animal theme. "Wasp Studies Afield" was published in 1918 and is currently in the public domain in the United States. The text can be freely copied and distributed."

◈ Genre / Form → Motets

♯ Key A major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SSATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range D2 – E6

¶ Language → English

Measures 80

Texture Homophonic

Parts 7

Instruments SSATB, Piano

Pages 8

CPDL # 68223

Editor Maggie Furtak

Posted 2022-03-03

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

E4 – E5

E4 – A5

Alto

A3 – C#5

Tenor

F#3 – G#4

Bass

A2 – C#4

Piano

D2 – E4

¶Lyrics / Text

The whole was not a helter-skelter commotion, but a merry whirl to the music of a faint, eerie hum of many wings, with every few moments a rather musical crescendo, which sounded like “zip!”, when a whirling pair would suddenly dash off at triple speed on the wing, in the final fling of joyful abandon...