David T. Little

for four percussionists playing sticks of varying bigness. [8.5x11]

Musik für den Schultheiß is rather sweet and formally mysterious work, composed in response to the Terpsichore suite by Michael Praetorius, whose real last name was Schultheiß. In old German Schultheiß meant something close to “mayor of a small municipality.” [8.5x11; 27 pages]

[9x12, 49 pages] Parts available on a rental basis.

Lasting approximately 5 minutes, 1986 was commissioned by the New World Symphony as part of The Ives Effect: Musical Xchange, organized by Yuki Numata. It was premiered on January 30th, 2009 at the Lincoln Theatre in Miami Beach, Florida.

Each of the Three Sams explores a different challenges presented by Sam Solomon’s "Set-up #1." In (---)-I-Am, a perpetual motion figure in the vibraphone is redistributed among the other instruments of the set-up. The second etude, Son of (---), is about rhythm. Intentionally disjunct, a large part of the challenge of the movement—aside from the complex rhythmic counterpoint— is in performing it musically. The third and final Sam, Wicked Uncle (---), asks the performer to navigate a fairly complex musical field in which each mallet of a four-mallet configuration was conceived as an independent limb, including the feet and the mouth. Three Sams was premiered by Samuel Z. Solomon on May 6th, 2007 at Boston Conservatory’s Seully Hall. It lasts approximately 13 minutes, and it dedicated to Sam with endless respect and gratitude.