From the Gulliver of a Droog of Ludwig Van

The music and writings of Danny Wier, a composer/musician based in Austin, Texas who dabbles in philosophy, history, politics and everything else.

My music at Soundcloud.

09 May 2016

This blog is retired. My new website (and blog) is at dawier.com (currently under construction).

09 June 2015

On neotonality--the Wier version

I've identified as a " neotonalist " composer. That's a pretty broad term in itself, but in my case: I use what could be...

17 May 2015

Schoenberg the thesis, Partch the antithesis...

The 45th movement of Symphony No. 2 is now finished (except for future edits). It’s kind of short, but maybe it needs to be that way. I...

04 May 2015

Subtitles of the 52 Movements of Symphony No. 2

I have now decided on subtitles for all movements of the Second Symphony (Subject to change.) Maine : Light, Hope New Hampshire : Whit...

17 April 2015

About shape notes again

There are two shape note systems (see also this NMB article ) you may find in old hymnals (the Baptist church I attended as a child had th...

Huygens and 31-tone

A few days ago, we observed the 386th anniversary of the birth of the Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens . Among his discoveries and invent...

29 March 2015

Doktoro Esperanto: an opera project

A few months ago, the idea of writing an Esperanto -language opera about the language’s inventor came to me. I took it as a challenge, becau...

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