How to Write for Percussion

Publisher: Oxford University Press
A Comprehensive Guide to Percussion Composition
Second Edition

• Features an online video companion, containing over nine hours of videos with demonstrations, performances, interviews, and analysis
• Unique in level of detail and percussion expertise
• Applicable to beginners and seasoned professionals

Samuel Z. Solomon, percussionist and teacher, offers a comprehensive examination of the issues that percussionists and composers encounter. The first edition, self-published in 2004, provided musicians and music programs the world over with practical and indispensible information about issues of notation, concert production, and much more.
This new edition goes further as Solomon expands the survey of behind-the-scenes processes-from instrument choice and notation to logistics, execution, and concert production-to uncover all the tools a composer needs to create innovative and skilled percussion composition.
Solomon also includes interviews with famous percussionists and composers that capture the intricacies of percussion composition. Moreover, the second edition features an expanded text with more instruments and more analysis, plus an extensive Online Video Companion containing over nine hours of videos with demonstrations, performances, interviews, and analysis to flesh out and clarify the material in the book.