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    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
    • Self Assessment
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Lichtenbergianism
  • Home/
  • What?/
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 1
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 2
    • Glossary
  • Blog/
  • The Nine Precepts/
    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
    • Self Assessment
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/
March 09, 2026

Piano works

March 09, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Piano works

In which I chat about submitting some piano music to a competition…

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March 09, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Abandonment
March 04, 2026

Happy Waltz Day!

March 04, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Happy Waltz Day!

In which I join you in celebrating National Waltz Day with most of the waltzes I have composed…

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March 04, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing
Audience
February 16, 2026

Serves me right for asking

February 16, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Serves me right for asking

In which I foolishly invite you to follow along as I write two “show-stopping dance numbers” for a show that doesn’t exist… in Beijing…

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February 16, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Collaboration
Abortive Attempts, Steal from the Best
February 03, 2026

Just vamping here for a bit...

February 03, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Just vamping here for a bit...

In which I have no pressing issue about which to write, so I just gossip a little bit about that guy Mike Funt who’s always asking me to write music for him…

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February 03, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts
January 21, 2026

Stealing from the Best: an object lesson

January 21, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Stealing from the Best: an object lesson

In which I show you how to STEAL FROM THE BEST to create your own work…

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Creative Spirit, Composing
Steal from the Best, King of Hearts Fallacy
January 14, 2026

Getting through

January 14, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Getting through

In which I pick up an ABANDONED ABORTIVE ATTEMPT and use it to conquer Dorico — Excelsior!…

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January 14, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing
Abandonment, Abortive Attempts
December 22, 2025

Lichtenbergian Proposed Efforts 2026

December 22, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Lichtenbergian Proposed Efforts 2026

In which I share my Lichtenbergian Proposed Efforts for the coming year…

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December 22, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Ten Little Waltzes, Seven Dreams, Proposed Efforts, Day in the Moonlight, Composing, Beethoven Blueprint
Abortive Attempts
December 08, 2025

Back to basics...

December 08, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Back to basics...

In which I confess to having avoided The Decoratoring™ by probably maybe finishing “Ten Little Waltzes”…

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December 08, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Task Avoidance, Abandonment, Gestalt
December 01, 2025

It's a mystery.

December 01, 2025/ Dale Lyles
It's a mystery.

In which I try to explain, once again, how I do it when I've not been trained to do it…

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December 01, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Steal from the Best, Successive Approximation, Gestalt, Abortive Attempts
November 18, 2025

What, never? (Hardly ever...)

November 18, 2025/ Dale Lyles
What, never? (Hardly ever...)

In which I muse about work I will never accomplish…

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November 18, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Cecil Project, Composing, Day in the Moonlight, Seven Dreams, Ten Little Waltzes, William Blake's Inn
Abandonment
  • Next
  • Home/
  • What?/
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 1
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 2
    • Glossary
  • Blog/
  • The Nine Precepts/
    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
    • Self Assessment
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/

Lichtenbergianism

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