She Was Dancing

Audio demo (generated by Sibelius)
SSA / piano
Text by Reginald Unterseher
Difficulty rating: Moderately difficult
Duration 3:25

You will need vocal scores for your singers (the full score has too many page turns), and the full score/percussion parts set.

Program Notes:

This piece comes from a dream image. We see a dancing woman, alone at first,
spinning with her arms spread wide. Her children join in under the starry sky.
She begins to rise, and our eyes are drawn up, following her. Her twirling hair
becomes the spiral galaxies, and the dance becomes the movement of the stars,
all woven together. The piece is about a woman, it is about women, it is about
Woman, it is about joy.

Notes on preparation and performance:

Try putting half the percussion on one side of the singers and half on the other side.

There are several places where you have different colors, articulations and textures going on at the same time--let them be different!

If you can sing this without moving, I will be very sad. So will she.

Text

by Reginald Unterseher

she was dancing, dancing, dancing,
her children were smiling, she was dancing
her children were laughing, she was dancing

the stars, turning, her hair,

twirling, the stars turning, twirling, dancing, dancing,

her children are smiling, We are
dancing, we are dancing, her children
are laughing, We are dancing, dancing,
dancing
the stars
she was…