Making Marvelous Music Boxes

As standing sculptures, these marvelous music boxes will brighten any home, but with a twist of a key their real magic is unlocked. This book will help you familiarize yourself with different musical movement parts and accessories, displayed in full-color photos along with helpful explanations of how they work and instruction on assembly. Basic decorating techniques are covered, such as antiquing, deocupaging, dry brushing, laminating, sponging, sculpting, and other special effects. Shares trade secrets, like how to make perfect dots and hearts or what to do when your brush blunders, and tips on sealing hard-to-coat surfaces. 38 wonderful designs.

Thirty-eight delightful designs will make you want to create a music box for everyone you know. For the holidays, reindeers paw in "Up on the Housetop", and snow gently falls for "Silent Night", while Santa bears gifts for boys and girls to "Here Comes Santa Claus". Each one is shown in beautiful full color, followed by "recipe-style" instructions with a list of materials needed for each project and simple numbered steps for easy assembly.

A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video. Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration. Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music.

Dive into the enchanting world of 'Mimi's Marvelous Music Box,' where each tune spins a unique tale, fostering a deep love for music and igniting boundless imagination. Join Mimi on her musical journey and unlock the secrets hidden within the melodies of her magical box. With captivating stories intertwined with harmonious melodies, Mimi's Music Box sparks creativity and nurtures a lifelong appreciation for the power of music. Delight in this immersive adventure that captivates both young hearts and curious minds, making it a cherished addition to any child's literary repertoire.

“Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure” (Joanna Kavenna, The New Yorker) Gathered for the first time in English, and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas’s finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death falls in love with a choirboy. A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits Marguerite Duras’s Paris apartment and watches his dinner companion slip into the abyss. An unsuspecting man receives a mysterious phone call from a lonely ophthalmologist, visits his abandoned villa, and is privy to a secret. The stories in Vampire in Love, selected and brilliantly translated by the renowned translator Margaret Jull Costa, are all told with Vila-Matas’s signature erudition and wit and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art and life.