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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
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    • March from the Dark Side
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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/
February 19, 2025

Who has the time?

February 19, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Who has the time?

In which I respond to having to follow my own advice…

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Writing, Composing
Task Avoidance
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
February 12, 2025

No new music yet.

February 12, 2025/ Dale Lyles
No new music yet.

In which I post a few sentences so everyone knows I’m trying to compose a thing…

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Composing
Abortive Attempts, Successive Approximation
February 10, 2025

New music, maybe. Maybe.

February 10, 2025/ Dale Lyles
New music, maybe. Maybe.

In which I put in writing my intent to compose an orchestral suite… ::sigh:: …

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Composing
Abortive Attempts, Steal from the Best
February 03, 2025

The return of the whinging composer

February 03, 2025/ Dale Lyles
The return of the whinging composer

In which I tackle a specific music project in MuseScore, Dorico, and Finale — and not one can do the job I need it to do…

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Composing
Abandonment
January 27, 2025

Get to work.

January 27, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Get to work.

In which I link to David Moldawer’s ‘The Maven Game’ for a post that is a challenge and a rebuke for us amateur creatives…

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Composing, Creative Spirit
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt, Successive Approximation
January 22, 2025

Shameless Self-Promotion: Getting Through, Getting Over

January 22, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Shameless Self-Promotion: Getting Through, Getting Over

In which I promote an older piece of my music, since I’m not quite up to speed on new software that would enable me to write something new…

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January 22, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Music, Composing
Abandonment
December 18, 2024

An oldie but goodie

December 18, 2024/ Dale Lyles
An oldie but goodie

In which I shamelessly self-promote one of my oldest (and loveliest) surviving musical works…

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Composing, Music, Shameless Self-Promotion
Successive Approximation
December 11, 2024

A serving suggestion

December 11, 2024/ Dale Lyles
A serving suggestion

In which I offer you a completely unwarranted but nonetheless awe-inspiring staging for the “Agnus Dei” of my “Fragments of a Mass in C”…

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December 11, 2024/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Music, Composing
Abortive Attempts
December 09, 2024

My Music Promo: Fragments of a Mass in C

December 09, 2024/ Dale Lyles
My Music Promo: Fragments of a Mass in C

In which I force myself to begin a series of shameless self-promotions for music I think deserves to be performed…

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December 09, 2024/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing
Abandonment
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  • 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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