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How To Write For Percussion Published by the author, 2002 A comprehensive text that clearly explains and simplifies all issues that percussionists and composers face with respect to each other. Written from a percussionist's perspective, it examines the behind-the-scenes processes to uncover all the tools the composer needs to comfortably create innovative and skilled percussion composition. Purchase from Amazon here... Read more about the book and view excerpts here...

"A true contribution to the literature of orchestration."

  Samuel Adler
  Professor Emeritus, Eastman School of Music
  Composition Faculty, Juilliard School
  Author, The Study of Orchestration

"Samuel Solomon's instructive and beautifully informative treatise is a must for all composers, conductors and instrumentalists. By far the most absorbing and demanding book on percussion writing, it is rivetingly interesting and will never cease to instruct, to inspire and to inform."

  Jeffrey Milarsky
  Percussionist
  Professor in Music, Columbia University
  Conductor, New York New Music Ensemble
  Assistant Conductor, American Composers Orchestra

"The choreographic, ergonomic, and psychological relationship between player and part has as much impact on how it will sound in performance as the shape of the instrument and the molecular weight of the beaters, because rhythm, phrasing, feel, and attitude are as important as sound. Yet How to Write for PERCUSSION is the first book to address these issues and discuss not only the instruments but also the artists who play them. It is fantastically detailed and informative, and it will be required reading in my classes and a fixture on my desk."

  Steven Mackey
  Composer
  Electric Guitarist
  Professor of Music, Princeton University