songwriting analysis. In 2001, he became Principal of the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, England – Europe's largest specialist academy for students of contemporary music, and the first music education establishment to win the Queen's Award for Enterprise (Innovation category). Little is listed in the Music Publishers Association (UK) Register of Expert Musicologists. In 2005, he was appointed Consultant Editor to A&C Black's flagship volume of musical reference, the Musicians' and Songwriters' Yearbook, and he has contributed articles on the future of music to the Hudson Institute's American Outlook magazine,Little, Jonathan, "Celestial Cinema; or, From Celluloid to Silicon: eCinema, Cyberentertainment and the Napsterization of Hollywood", in American Outlook, Vol. IV, No. 4 (July/Aug, 2001), 28-33. and the British Academy's Heart & Soul: Revealing the Craft of Songwriting (published by Sanctuary to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Ivor Novello Awards). His writings on the future of the music industry initially stemmed from a report surveying the first European digital distribution conference in 2000, and subsequently with Scottish music industry analyst JoJo Gould, he co-founded and edited Music Business Journal (). Having acted as a Curriculum Consultant to the British and Irish Modern Music Institute, and Visiting Lecturer in Media Music Composition at the University of Surrey, Little became Reader (2012), and then Professor (2017), in Music Composition and Music History at the University of Chichester. Little has written two academic studies on musical orientalism and exotic orchestration for EMP, New York: The Influence of European Literary and Artistic Representations of the 'Orient' on Western Orchestral Compositions, ca. 1840-1920: From Oriental Inspiration to 'Exotic' Orchestration, together with its companion volume, Literary Sources of Nineteenth-Century Musical Orientalism: The Hypnotic Spell of the Exotic on Music of the Romantic Period. (This 950-page, two-volume study won an Authors' Foundation/Royal Literary Fund Award for 2011.) Many of Little's compositions are issued by Wirripang. The National Library of Australia holds copies of Little's selected verse, and all his published musical works. Selected recordings of his music are on deposit at the Australian National Film and Sound Archive, with many scores and recordings also held by the Australian Music Centre. Published work Printed music Symphonic and orchestral Terpsichore: "The Whirler" or Muse of Dance, Op. 7 (from The Nine Muses, No. 7) (Dance Poem for Large Orchestra), c. 15' (Wollongong, Australia: Wirripang, 2006) ISMN M720072234. Polyhymnia: "She of Many Hymns" or Muse of Sacred Poetry, Op.