(Book). Following in the footsteps of the popular Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary ; this handy book is the most contemporary music theory book on the market! A step-by-step guide to harmony and theory for every musician; it includes thorough; yet to easy-to-understand analysis of: intervals; rhythms; scales; chords; key signatures; transposition; chord inversion; key centers; harmonizing the major and minor scales; extended chords; modulation and much more. Packed with info from the Harmony Theory course at Musicians Institute!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Design and GenderBy P. E. HowseIn this fascinating book Gloria Moss pulls down the barriers between disciplines to reveal to us in a very readable way how the work of artists and designers is influenced by gender. The corollary is that our appreciation of art and design - particularly of almost everything that we tend to buy when we go shopping - is to a significant extent gender dependent. Men and women mostly go for different colours and patterns when it comes to interior design; and also even choose different Christmas cards. Professor Moss has shown in her own research that men greatly prefer designs created by men; and women designs by women. Men prefer lots of straight lines; while women prefer busy pictures with lots of curved lines.I suddenly found myself looking at a picture hanging in my study of stylised butterflies painted by a local artist. The wings have a lot of straight lines running across them and the wing borders are straight-edged. Sure enough it was painted by a man (my wife doesnt like it much). Moss also draws on recent findings about colour perception. Apart from obvious disparities in seeing colour - red-green colour blindness for example - there are many more subtle differences between individuals. One study in America has found that around half of all women have a fourth colour cone in the retina; implying that they can see 100 times more hues than over 97% of men that have the standard RGB cones.Moss argues that these gender differences have their origin in the Hunter-Gatherer activity that occupied men and women for 99% of human history. These historical activities continue to have an effect since the gender differences plainly have enormous consequences for the marketing of goods; where most designers are male and purchasers female - and; incidentally only 14 out of 2;500 paintings in the National Gallery in London are done by women. This book is clearly a must for people in the world of design; advertising and marketing. For all of us; though; it is highly entertaining and full of surprises; providing a reminder that the workings of the human mind are weirder and more mysterious than we like to imagine.