Count Your Blessings, Not Your Problems
*~Peace, Love, and Piano Keys~*
I'm Steph. I'm a writer, musician (piano, clarinet, singer, composer, lyricist), and a juggler. I'm a junior at Hollins University. I want to be an author or a music/english teacher.
I love having fun and trying new things. I'm a Quadruplet. I love acting, music, nature, and writing. I love star gazing, dancing, and playing board games and much much more. What you see is what you get...
WHAT’S UP INTERNET
If you’re a gamer, you probably noticed all the new stuff being announces at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. I’m super excited, especially about all the announcements from Sony and Nintendo.
Lots of people are excited for different consoles and their respective games, LIKE THE 3DS. So here’s your chance to win one! The winner will receive a red 3DS XL system (like new, used only a few times) with its original box, charger, manuals, and AR cards. Plus, the two latest killer apps for the 3DS, Fire Emblem: Awakening and Animal Crossing: New Leaf!
Rules:
- Sadly, the 3DS is region-locked, so I am only shipping to the United States (50 states).
- Reblogs count, Likes do not. Only one reblog will count per person.
- If you make a fake/empty/giveaway/side blog to reblog, you will be disqualified.
- I will need the winner’s address for shipping purposes, so you have to be comfortable with sharing this information.
The giveaway will end on Friday, June 21st and the winner will be announced on that day! Good luck!
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My friend on twitter, eternalruth, needs some Moonie (Sailor Moon fan name) help! Eternalruth is a big Sailor Moon fan and she even has a channel on YouTube where she uploads a lot of Sera Myu DVD rips.She is going to Japan in September to see the relaunch of Sera Myu. She was actually…
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Well obviously, if you’re only getting married once. Duh..?
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Sneak Peek at my ‘new’ drawing style
Source: Me
Picture Order: initial Drawing, Line Art, Black and White, Color, Colored with mechanical pencil
*Also posted on my Sailor Moon blog
Kirby plushie for my friend - handmade
Size compairison: its as big as a Gamecube
*originally posted on my crafting blog (Knifty~Crafty)
Piano.
She is going to Japan in September to see the relaunch of Sera Myu. She was actually originally going to go to Japan in October and was able to move her flight/travel plans to September.
However because of this and a few other financial budgets she might not have enough money for a hotel, food, shopping, etc.
So please help a fellow Moonie out and donate a few dollars to her fund.
http://www.gofundme.com/354j5w
Thanks for your time,
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This is a really pretty cake design
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So cuuuuuuute XD
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The Evolution of the Treble Clef
The curving flourishes of music notation have always been something a mystery to me, although every day I, like many people, use other arcane symbols without thinking twice about it. The at (@) sign, the dollar sign ($) and the ampersand (&), for example, all function like ligatures or some sort of shorthand. They’ve been demystified by popular use in email, clues on “Wheel of Fortune,” and their inclusion on computer keyboards. But music notation is a semantic system that is entirely different from the written word; a non-spoken alphabet of pitch and rhythm. So, with apologies to the more musically inclined reader, I looked into the origin of the treble clef and the answer was quite simple. The treble clef, the top symbol you see in the photo above, is also known as the G-clef, which gives you the first clue to its origin.
So for my own edification, if nothing else, let’s start with the basics. A clef is a sign placed on a music staff that indicates what pitch is represented by each line and space on the staff. The history of Western musical notation describes an effort toward the development a simple, symbolic representations of pitch and rhythm. It begins near the end of the 9th century when notation for the Plainsong of the Western Church, better known as Gregorian Chant, was first recorded with “neumes”. These were simple dashes or dots above lyrics that indicated a relative change in pitch. At the end of the 10th century, musical scribes increased the precision of his early notation by introducing a horizontal line to indicate a base pitch (see above image). The pitch of this line was indicated by a letter at its start – typically F or C and, as higher range songs become more common, G. Neumes were no longer relative only to one another, but to a standard. This was the beginning of the musical staff.
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Pikachu! So cute! :)
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