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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
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/
June 11, 2025

Some progress on the Little Waltz/MuseScore

June 11, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Some progress on the Little Waltz/MuseScore

In which I update you on my progress in composing a Little Waltz in MuseScore…

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Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts
June 04, 2025

Here's what I've got.

June 04, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Here's what I've got.

In which I offer my own struggles with composing as the perfect illustration of the value of the Lichtenbergianism to the citizen artist…

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Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts
June 02, 2025

Decision time

June 02, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Decision time

In which I prepare to abandon the very music program that allowed me to compose some real good stuff…

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Composing
Abortive Attempts
May 06, 2025

A 'zine? Really?

May 06, 2025/ Dale Lyles
A 'zine? Really?

In which I beg you to stop me from adding ANOTHER PROJECT no matter how worthy it is…

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Backstreet Writers
Abortive Attempts, Audience, Abandonment
April 07, 2025

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!

April 07, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!

In which I once again am asking you to register for the Ultimate Shakespeare Smackdown…

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Shakespeare
Abortive Attempts
March 12, 2025

Not much to report

March 12, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Not much to report

In which I am not at all embarrassed to report on how little I got done this week…

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Composing
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt, Successive Approximation
March 05, 2025

Moving on...

March 05, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Moving on...

In which I share the bare beginnings of an inkling of a couple of ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS…

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Beethoven Blueprint, Backstreet Writers, Composing
Abortive Attempts, Waste Books, Steal from the Best
March 03, 2025

What's stopping you?

March 03, 2025/ Dale Lyles
What's stopping you?

In which I once again share my “Christmas Carol,” this time as an object lesson in Lichtenbergianism…

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Christmas Carol, Lichtenbergianism
Audience, Abortive Attempts
February 26, 2025

Very little.

February 26, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Very little.

In which I post the most ABORTIVE of ATTEMPTS at small piano waltzes…

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Composing, Ten Little Waltzes, Beethoven Blueprint
Abortive Attempts
February 17, 2025

::shakes his tiny fists at Big Music::

February 17, 2025/ Dale Lyles
::shakes his tiny fists at Big Music::

In which I go all Luddite on my new orchestral suite…

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Composing
Abortive Attempts
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  • 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
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/

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