Compositions

Andrea Goodman has been composing solo and collaborative music professionally since 1980.

List of compositions:

1986 “Lullaby With Fish Tale” — words and music, originally scored for three voices, harp, mandolin, bouzouki, and tenor recorder, later for solo voice and bandura

1986 “The Moon’s Daughter” — words and music, song-story for voice and bandura

1987 “Under Thunder Twins” — words and music, song-story for voice and bandura

2013 “Opening the Door to the New Year” — collaboration with Anna Dembska

2008 “Gilgamesh Landscape” — collaboration with Shamou for “Gilgamesh” play by Griff Braley, Heartwood Theater

2007 “Stepping Into the River” — collaboration with dancer Pam Wiley

2006 “Ah, Helpless One” — chant, composed for Inanna Sisters in Rhythm, Winter Solstice Event

2006 “Wind Labyrinth” — for voice, piano, cello and violin

2005 “Sonic Astrology” — vocal astrological chart

2005 “My body to the earth, my soul to the sky” — in four mutable parts

2005 “Imperishable Stars: Big Dipper Healing” –– 9 voices, each singing her star

2004 “Evocations: The Presence of the Goddess” — vocal music for cycle of eleven poems by Brenda Bettinson, work-in-progress

2004 “Upon This Chair” — words and music, song for solo voice

2003 “Hannah Leah” — three-part round for many voices

2003 “Lotus Blossom Perfume” — words and music, song for solo voice, 1998, with ukelele and trumpet

1998 “Tarot Cantabile” — vocal tarot cards

1997 “Divine Doorways” — eleven songs, collaboration with percussionist Gerry Hemingway

1996 “Dragon’s Daughter” — songs for theater piece, for three voices, commissioned by Figures Of Speech Theatre

1994 “Festival of Light” — words and music, songs for theater piece, for nine voices, commissioned by Figures of Speech Theatre

1994 “Nightingale” — words and music, songs for theater piece, for two voices, commissioned by Figures of Speech Theatre

1992 “Mother” — words and music, trio for three voices, sung by Andrea, Mara, and Jill Goodman

1991 “Lady Eleandra” — words and music, song-story for voice, bandura, and Tibetan singing bowl

1988 “Emerging-Merging” — score for choreography, voice double-tracked, commissioned by Jeannette Stoner

1987 “Of Sand and Thunder” — score for play, for voice and bandura, commissioned by Bond Street Theatre Coalition

1986 “Planet Songs” — words and music, eight songs for solo voice

1980 “You” — words and music, song for solo voice