An informative walk through the world of tattoos-the history, traditions, old and new trends, the art, culture, and more. This book covers the earliest known examples of tattoos to the more recent innovations in the field, such as ultraviolet ink, and temporary tattoos containing one's personal and financial data.
"This indispensable resource combines the best of Piano For Dummies, Keyboard For Dummies, Music Theory For Dummies, and Piano Exercises For Dummies and includes practice strategies, as well as access to streaming and downloadable audio to help guide your progress. In addition to becoming acquainted with the latest in music theory, you'll learn to develop your sight-reading skills and performance techniques --until you can reproduce pieces flawlessly on request!"--Amazon.com
Many people grimace at the sound of music theory. It can conjure up bad memories of grade school music classes, rattle the brains of college students, and make self-taught musicians feel self-defeated. Music Theory may seem tedious and unnecessary, especially since not many people can read music. Luckily, Music Theory for Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to understanding the concepts needed to compose, deconstruct, and comprehend music. This helpful guide will give you a great grasp of: Note value and counting notes Treble and bass clefs Time signatures and measures Naturalizing the rhythm Tempo and dynamic Tone, color, and harmonics Half steps and whole steps Harmonic and melodic intervals Key signatures and circles of fifths Scales, chords, and their progressions Elements of form Music theory’s fascinating history This friendly guide not only explores these concepts, it provides examples of music to compliment them so you can hear how they sound firsthand. With a bonus CD that demonstrates these ideas with musical excerpts on guitar and piano, this hands-on resource will prove to you that music theory is as enjoyable as it is useful. Don’t get discouraged by the seemingly complicated written structure. With Music Theory for Dummies, understanding music has never been easier! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
No one has been more influential in the contemporary practice of art history than Erwin Panofsky, yet many of his early seminal papers remain virtually unknown to art historians. As a result, Michael Ann Holly maintains, art historians today do not...
Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are materially present in our world, the worlds from which they come are forever lost to time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael Ann Holly traces how this disjunction courses through the history of art and shows how it can give rise to melancholic sentiments in historians who write about art. She confronts pivotal and vexing questions in her discipline: Why do art historians write in the first place? What kinds of psychic exchanges occur between art objects and those who write about them? What institutional and personal needs does art history serve? What is lost in historical writing about art? The Melancholy Art looks at how melancholy suffuses the work of some of the twentieth century's most powerful and poetic writers on the history of art, including Alois Riegl, Franz Wickhoff, Adrian Stokes, Michael Baxandall, Meyer Schapiro, and Jacques Derrida. A disarmingly personal meditation by one of our most distinguished art historians, this book explains why to write about art is to share in a kind of intertwined pleasure and loss that is the very essence of melancholy
Teoria muzyki dla bystrzaków. Wydanie IV W prostocie tkwi siła Poznaj elementy składowe muzyki Zrozum muzykę, którą grasz, komponujesz lub analizujesz Posłuchaj online dołączonych nagrań Nastrój się na prawdziwą muzykę Czy jesteś uczniem, wykonawcą, czy fanem, dzięki tej książce bez trudu pojmiesz teorię muzyki. To przejrzyste wprowadzenie w jej koncepcje oraz w zagadnienia artyzmu i biegłości technicznej - kwestie stanowiące podstawę do tworzenia wspaniałych dźwięków. Szybko staniesz się specjalistą od wystukiwania rytmów, odczytywania nut i przewidywania dalszego ciągu utworu. Zyskasz też szersze spojrzenie na dzieła innych muzyków - i nadasz głębszy wymiar własnym. W książce: Skale durowe i molowe, interwały, klucze i wysokość dźwięku Podstawy notacji muzycznej, oznaczeń metrum, tempa i dynamiki Budowanie melodii, akordów, progresji i fraz muzycznych Komponowanie harmonii i melodii akompaniujących dla głosu i instrumentów