Outline: Adaptasi grafis salah satu buku sejarah populer paling berpengaruh di dunia, Sapiens.
Sapiens Grafis Volume 1 membahas kemunculan Homo sapiens di Bumi dan bagaimana Sapiens berubah dari spesies biasa saja menjadi makhluk hidup dominan di dunia. Volume 2 ini membicarakan bagaimana cara pertanian, sebagai upaya Homo sapiens menopang populasinya yang makin membesar, malah memunculkan imp…
Outline: Explore the wonders of the human voice with the fun, magical activities in The Book of Pitch Exploration! Whether it's whooshing or shushing, hooting or booing, the human voice is capable of creating all kinds of sounds. This book allows children to discover these sounds through ideas, poems, stories, and songs that invite vocal participation from all involved. Not only are these activ…
Outline: Mungkin banyak orang mengenal Tuhan Yesus, tetapi yang mengalami Dia tidak begitu banyak. Di antara orang-orang yang mengalami Dia itu, lebih sedikit lagi orang yang menuangkan pengalamannya dalam bentuk nyanyian. Tidak heran, karena nyanyian adalah kristalisasi, intisari, bagian yang paling berkesan, menyentuh dari pengalaman seseorang. Buku ini menyajikan nyanyian dari orang yang di…
Outline: ... "Dalam wayang kita melihat bahwa setiap golongan - dewa, brahmana, satria, punakawan dan lain-lain - mempunyai norma-normanya sendiri. Lebih dari itu, masing-masing pribadi pun entah itu Bima, Kresna, Karna, real Bisma, Destarata atau pun Sengkuni, mempunyai tugas tersendiri yang ditentukan para dewa, masing-masing memainkan peranannya entah luhur entah rendah karena justru itulah …
Outline: Independent of his international renown as a humanitarian. Albert Schweitzer is well known as a great musicologist; a reputation that rests largely upon this book. Schweitzer's J. S. Bach is one of the great full-length studies of the composer, his life, and his work. Its influence on the subsequent performance of Bach's music was enormous, and there is scarcely a later work on Bach wh…
Outline: "Ibarat terbang dengan permadani ajaib menembus dunia tersembunyi cerita komik." "Saksi sejarah lebih daripada 3.000 tahun yang lalu." "Menguak rahasia antarpanel." "Merasakan kekuatan garis dan warna." "Menyingkap kekuatan simbol." "Menyaksikan dari dekat "pertempuran" antara kata-kata dan gambar." Dan yang terutama dari semua itu, mengerti mengapa komik bisa menjadi sangat penting da…
Outline: This best-selling text gives music majors and minors a solid foundation in the theory of music. This book strengthens their musical intuition, build technical skills, and helps them gain interpretive insights. The goal of the text is to instruct readers on the practical application of knowledge. The analytical techniques presented are carefully designed to be clear, uncomplicated and …
Outline: In this book, renowned Bach scholar Eric Chafe challenges the scholarly consensus, arguing that Cantata 21 is a carefully designed work, and that it displays a convergence of musical structure and theological purpose that is paradigmatic of Bach's sacred work as a whole. Drawing on a wide range of Lutheran theological writing, the author shows that Cantata 21 reaches beyond the scope…
Outline: This booklet shows that every music reflects a certain of beauty (or ugliness) both in its form and content. The place of music in the church strongly relates to the church's theology of worship. The biblical principles of beauty should permeate the aesthetics of sacred music. With regard to society, we can observe its needs and fallenness through its musical products while at the sa…
Overview: An all-new-series of harmony textbooks, with a simple, concise approach for teachers and students. Perfect for a systematic study of harmony for the general musician, as well as for requirements of the ABRSM, AMEB and other examining bodies. Melodic decorations, suspensions, dominant seventh chord, and modulation. Analysis questions are included.
Overview: This concise and comprehensive guide is designed to meet the needs of today's opera-lover. It contains synopses of eighty-three major operas by forty-one composers from Monteverdi, and Purcell, through Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Debussy and Janacek, to Alban Berg, Tippett and Britten. As the authors remark in the introduction, opera is a strange, complex and fascinating art, and its in…
Overview: An all-new-series of harmony textbooks, with a simple, concise approach for teachers and students. Perfect for a systematic study of harmony for the general musician, as well as for requirements of the ABRSM, AMEB and other examining bodies. The supertonic seventh chord and other secondary sevenths, the diminished seventh chords, Neapolitan sixth and other chromatic chords. Hints o…
Overview: We are taken from as far back as medieval church music right through to the present and shown how the essential characteristics of each period provided a relevant contribution to the mainstream of influence shaping Anglican church music as we know it today. The author's assessment of key works is both informative and perceptive. It enables the author in his final chapters to bring t…
Overview: This authoritative book, now in its third edition, has been revised and updated with an added new chapter and an audio disc included at the back. It presents an introduction to many types of Balinese gamelan ensembles, each with its own established tradition, repertoire and context. The instruments and basic principles underlying the music are introduced, providing listeners with th…
Overview: Exuberant, ornate and colourful, Peranakan Chinese porcelain is a variety of polychrome enamelled export ware made to specification in China during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the exclusive use of the Peranakan or Straits-born Chinese communities in Penang, Malacca and Singapore. Often called Nyonya ware after the Nyonyas or womenfolk of this unique subcategory o…
Overview: The author tells this book from the perspective of the men who created, expanded, and preserved the legend. Drawing the thousands of pages of diaries, correspondence, private day books, financial records, and long-lost court documents, this book brings its readers into the inner council of a renowned family, there to meet not only the great but also the forgotten and the infamous. S…