Scott Good
Composer - Conductor - Concert Designer
Chronological list:
Compositions - Arrangements - Orchestrations
2024
18:00 – (high soprano + 2222/4231/2perc/harp/strings)
2023
Christmas with the McAuley Boys - orchestrations, arrangements, co-design
2 hr Concert - (McAuley Boys vocal quartet + Choir + (2222/221/Harp/Drms/Strings)
2022
By the Fireside with Laila Biali - orchestrations, arrangements, co-design
2 hr Concert - (Laila Biali quartet + Choir + (0000/221/Harp/Strings)
The Caboose Who Got Loose
30:00 – (narrator/cello solo + 2222/4231/2perc/harp/strings + slides + amplification + playback)
The Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky) - re-orchestration
35:00 – (2**2*2**2*/22*10/T/2P/accordion/22221)
Tiferet (concert) – arrangements/concert design
35:00 – (12*2*1/111/T/P/H/Strings)
Chernick: Eili, Min Hamietzar, Hashievenu, Zeh Heyon - Sephardic Trad: A, Ti Espanya, Esta Montanya - Bloch: Concerto Grosso#1, Renouveau
2021
Music for String Quartet and Hand Percussion
11:00
2020
Fire and Frost (concert)– arrangements/ concert design
50:00 – 4 trumpet, 4 Trombone, 2 Horn, Tuba, 2 Percussion
Rant Maggie Rant: A Lot More Better, Once Upon a Northern Night, Simple Love, White Dove -Trad: Celtic Dances Suite, Good Kind Wenceslas, Winter’s Flower - Stevens: Sisters Winter - Dowland: Can She Forgive My Wrongs
2019
The Sleepers - Oratorio
1:05:00 – (Baritone solo/Choir + 2222/221/perc/harp/strings)
Text: Walt Whitman
Comfort and Joy (concert)– arrangements/concert design
90min – (2singers/Choir +orch (11111/1221/P/Set/H/Strings)
Trad: Deck the Halls, O Holy Night, Christmas Song, White Christmas - Carrey: All I Want for Christmas is You - Harvey: Christmas Shoppers - Lightfoot: Winter’s Song
Love: Christmas - Ellington: Jingle Bells
Belonging (concert)– arrangements/concert design
Feature: Najwa Zebian (poet), Maryem Toller (singer/songwriter)
65:00 – (Singer/Poet/1010/00/P/11111)
Toller: Mawwal, Irroh, In The Heart, Phoenix Rising - Dvorak: Going Home - Lakme: Flower Duet - Good: Song of Longing - Piazzolla: Oblivion - Arabic Tradl: Yalla Tnam Rima
Sarah Smith (concert) – arrangements/concert design
50:00 – (rock band, children’s choir (0000/2111/P/1111)
Smith: Wake Up Alive, Into the Light, Already Here, Shine Bright, The Stars, Angels and Anchors, I’m Asking - Lauper: Time After Time - Eurythmics: Here Comes the Rain Again
2018
Light of East Ensemble (concert) – arrangements/concert design
60:00 – (Ensemble+1111/111/P/strings)
Trad. Various: Ayazein, Sala Sala, Zeibekiko of Evdokia, Ala Una Yo Naci, Longa Nihavent, Pente Xronia Dikasmenos, S' Agapw Giati Eisai Oraia, Sama'i Thaquil, Rampi Rampi, Et Domi Kala, Hava Nagila
Danny Michel - select arrangements
1:05:00 – (Baritone solo/Choir + 2222/221/perc/harp/strings)
Michel: Feather Fur and Fin, Maybe You Can Find it in Your Heart?, This is What is
2017
Summoning the Wither
14:00 – brass choir (4 horns, 5 trumpets, 4 Trombones, 2 Tubas, 2 Percussion, Traps)
Song of Longing
5:30 – for any solo instrument and piano
2016
Wu Xing
15:00 - Violin, Cello, Piano, Jazz Bass and Drums
Phrygian Gates (John Adams) - arrangement
28:00 – Piano, Violin, Cello, Jazz bass and drums
The Stutterer (Dafnis Prieto) - arrangement
6:00 - Violin, Cello, Trombone, Piano, Jazz Bass and Drums, DJ
London Remembers (concert) – arrangements/concert design
60:00 – (1111/111/perc/piano/strings/2 singers/guitar)
Part: Spiegel Im Speigel, - Lynn: We’ll Meet Again - Bogle: And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Gorecki: Symph.#3-mvt2 - Knopfer: Brothers in Arms - Copland: Appalachian Spring
2015
1:20:00 - (soprano/piano solos + 2222/4231/2perc/harp/strings + film+amplification)
Fantasy on a theme of Monteverdi
10:00 - (4 trumpet/horn/4trombone/tuba)
Fanfare on "Come Aga1n"
2:00 - 2 trumpets
Of Love and Loss (concert) – concert design
50:00 – (solo singer/keys/bass + 1111/121/P/strings)
2014
Resonance Unfolding 2 - Homage to Olivier Messiaen
8:00 - (4444 / 6442 / 4 perc / hrp / pno / strings)
Sonata for Harp and String Quartet
12:00
2013
3 Movements for Chamber Orchestra
14:00 - (1121 / 1111 / perc / pno / hrp / 11111)
What the Chickpea Said to the Cook
6:00 - (2222 / 4231 / 2 perc / hrp / strings)
5:15 - (3333 / 4331 / 3 perc / tmp / hrp / pno / strings)
Concerto for Cello and Jazz Orchestra
30:00 - (004sx0 / 0340 / set / ltn. perc / e. guit / pno / bs(e+ac))
45:00 - a co-production with Greek Folk / Surf Rock band Alaniaris
2012
12:00 - Solo Trombone + Symphonic Band (4155sx1 / 4442 / 3 perc / pno / 00000)
2011
Dzunukwa - Beneath the Canopy and Through The Underworld
35:00 - aarration, 100 piece high school band, children's choir, adult improvising, chamber ensemble (1010 / 0110 / 2 perc / 11100)
8:00 - (*4*4*4*4 / 7431 / T / 3 perc / hrp / strings) based on the orchestration of Mahler's 1st Symphony
Concerto for Improvising Performer and Jazz Band
18:00 - (s. improviser / 0004sax 0 / 0340 / traps / perc / pno / e. guitar / 1 0 0 0 1(elec.) )
45:00 - Waterhole (trombone / piano / ocarina / drum set / e. guitar / e.c bass / moog) - chamber orchestra (1110 / 2000 / 2 perc / 10110)
Composed for for Kokoro Dance - original choreography by Barbara Bourget
7:00 - (Trombone and Pipe Organ)
2010
45:00 - Story, Artworks: Dwight Schenk, Music: Scott Good, Dwight Schenk
(narration, actor, 2(3)*2(3)**2(3 Schenk)**2(3)* / 4*2(3)31 / T / 2 perc / cel / hrp / strings / audio playback / 53 slides *)
Elements Merge
9min - (choir / s. sax / pno / perc)
Text: from Walt Whitman's The Sleepers
Mr Sun - arrangement
4:15 - (22*22 / 4231 / 2perc / tmp / hrp / pno / strings)
7:30 - (1100 / 0000 / 0 / 11111)
Grunge - arrangement
8:30 - (2121 / 3131 / traps mallets / 2 pno / 22221)
2009
Blues'n Riff: The Spectacular Tale of Katy Caboose
16:00 - (*3*3*3*3 / 4*331 / T / 4 perc / pno / hrp / strings / audio playback)
3:00 - (2*222 / 4231 / 2 perc / tmp / hrp / pno / strings)
Composition: Impossible
4:00+6:00 incidental music - (actor + 3222 / 4331 / tmp / 2 perc / hrp / pno / strings)
Composed for the Vancouver Symphony Educational Concerts. CAC/VSO resdiency.
Dzunukwa
12:00 - (solo theatrical trombonist / + 8 trombones / percussion / 8+ sound makers / spacial composition, coordinated by stopwatch)
2008
18:00 - (2222 / 4231 / T / 2 perc / pno / hrp / strings)
Composed and commissioned by the National Arts Centre Orchestra
21:00 - (s.trombone + *10*1 S+Tsax *1 / 1121 / traps / perc / pno / e.guitar /11111 + amplification)
2007
Between the Rooms - concerto for trumpet and orchestra
25:00 - (s. tr. / 2222 / 4231 / T / 2-4 perc / hrp / strings)
Anguished Grief - solo violin and string orchestra
14:30 - (s.violin / 0000 / 0000 / 0 / 43221)
21:00 - (**3*3*3*3 / 4331 / T / 2 perc / hrp / strings)
Vonnegut and the Slaughterhouse Orchestra - tribute to Kurt Vonnegut
1:30:00 - Music and Lyrics: Scott Good and Dwight Schenk
Singer, Soprano, Actor (001 2 sax 0 / 0210 / perc / traps / kbd / e guitar / e bass / 10111)
2006
Babbitt – concerto for saxophone(s) and orchestra
26:00 - (s. sax / *2*2*2*2 / 2221 / T / perc / pno / hrp / strings)
30:00 - (actor / 2 tbn / bari. sax / live electronics with 8 speaker surround sound)
and dreams rush forth to greet the distance
6:00 - (violin and piano)
45:00+ - (002 t+b sax 0 / 0330/ traps / perc / kbd / e. guit / e. bass)
2005
15:00 - (*3*3*3*3 / 4341 / tmp / 3perc / hrp / pno / strings)
Variations for Chamber Orchestra
16:00 - (*10*11 / 1000 / 1 Perc/ Hrp / 11111)
Sun - Moon
8:15 - (string quartet)
2004
11:30 - (2 percussionists)
5:00 - (piano)
Four Spanish Songs (arrangement)
7min - (solo trumpet / string orchestra)
2003
48:00 - (3 actors, soprano, (00*10 / 0010 / perc / 10110 ))
A musical setting of the Euripedes play of the same name
Prelude
2:30 - (solo cello)
Winter Fanfare
2:00 - (brass quintet)
2002
18:45 - (4 S. Crnt / section Crnt / Fl. Hn/ 3 T. Hn / 2 B. Hn / 2 Tbn / 2 Euph / 2 Eb Tba / 2 Bb Tba / Tym / 2 Perc)
18:30 - (soprano / string quartet)
Text: Christine de Pizan
2001
Rise
3:30 - (horn (alto trombone) / tenor trombone / bass trombone)
24:00 - (flute / piccolo / oboe / english horn / clarinet / bass clarinet / bassoon)
2000
8:00 - (2 trumpets / horn / 2 trombones / 4 channel playback)
11:15 - (viola / trombone / c flute / alto alute / piano / harp)
2:15 - (2 trumpets / horn / 2 trombones)
1999
Concerto for Orchestra
17:30 - (*22*32 / 4231 / T / 2 perc / pno / strings)
Look to this Day
3:40 - (soprano / 2 trumpets / horn / 2 trombones / cello)
16:30 - (trombone and string quartet)
excerpts from the Book of Hours
22:00 - (soprano / 2 trumpets / horn / tenor Ttombone / bass trombone / 2 percussion)
Text: Rainer Rilke
1998
Wind
8:30 - (bass Trombone / electronics)
Earthquake
19:30 - symphonic band: (*4+,*3+,*4+, 2+, (2a,t,b sax) / 4+3+3+1+1+euph / 4 perc / tmp / pno / 00001)
1997
Prelude for Orchestra (Fantasie Symphonique)
9:00 - (*3*3*3*3 / 4331 / T / 2 perc / hrp / strings)
14:00 - Studio Composition (synthesizer, percussion, brass choir, 2 cellos, soprano, Jazz trumpet)
1996
Dialogue Between the Body and Soul of the Murdered Girl
25:30 - (soprano / flute (double alto) / Bb clarinet (double bass) / violin, viola, cello, piano)
9:00 - (10 trombones)
Soliloquy
4:00 - (bassoon / cello / trombone / piano)
Short Ride in a Brass Machine
1:30 - (2 trumpets / horn / 2 trombones)
1995
Fanfare
0:40 - (4 horns / 2 trumpets / 3 trombones / percussion / timpani)
14:30 - (*3*3*3*3 / 4331 / T / 3 perc / pno / hrp / strings)
Postlude
5:00 - (solo horn)
Five Bagatells
10:00 - (2 trumpets / horn / trombone / tuba)