good egg (2025)
percussion trio · 4 minutes · advanced-

good egg was written for the 2025 Sō Percussion Summer Institute, and premiered on July 18th, 2025 at Small World Coffee.

You will be emailed a PDF file of the score within 24 hours of your purchase, which can be printed from any computer.

Instrumentation
good egg is written for percussion trio, each with two egg shakers (six egg shakers total). This piece also uses body percussion.

Ideally, the part assignments should be made based off of the pitches of the player’s bodies: Player 1 should have the highest chest bass pitch, and Player 3 the lowest.

The phrase "good egg" often refers to a good person.

I think a lot about how to be a good citizen of the world—to leave this planet better than I found it, especially through music.

good egg is influenced by Japanese asalato subculture (both in its theatricality and musical content), the contemporary percussion repertoire, and groove-based/sample-based electronic music.

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