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Janae Jean
Nov 1, 20201 min read
Announcement! Join Us On Patreon
New Subscriber-Only Content and More Coming Soon! Like what you read in the Perennial Blog? This blog, while a labor of love, takes...
Janae Jean
Oct 20, 20208 min read
Orchestration Basics – Understanding the Voice
More Than "Just A Singer" – Voices As Instruments In the last post, I introduced the four main voice types, as well as additional...
Janae Jean
Oct 19, 202010 min read
Orchestration Basics – Choir – Voices Types
Classifying the Voice
There are four main voice types in choral music: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.
Janae Jean
Sep 21, 20209 min read
Musical Innovations – Six Unique Instruments
Add These Sounds to Your Earbox In previous posts, we have touched on the instruments of the conventional Western orchestra, some...
Janae Jean
Aug 11, 20206 min read
Four Types of Texture in Music
What images pop into your heard when you hear the word "texture"? Soft or hard? Dry or wet? Alive or inanimate? Slimy? Sticky? Fur, skin,...
Janae Jean
Feb 8, 20206 min read
Sample This! Part 3
A Brief Introduction to Sampling in Music: Part Three Breakbeats, Turntables, Early Hip Hop In the previous installments, we continued...
Janae Jean
Jan 29, 20206 min read
Free in February! Museums and More
Get Inspired this Winter Snow. Ice. Sleet. Slush. Wind chill factors. Here in Chicagoland, it can be tempting to stay home and hibernate...
Janae Jean
Jan 24, 20204 min read
Sample This! Part 2
Part 2 of the Sample This! series where we learn about new instruments including the Mellotron and the Chamberlin
Janae Jean
Dec 1, 20195 min read
Sample This! Part 1
Part 1 of the Sample This! series where we discover what sampling is in music.
Janae Jean
Nov 24, 20191 min read
2019 Holiday Special!
What rings in the Holiday Season for you? Is it the sound of Jingle Bells, a Sunday afternoon Sleigh Ride, or the scent of Chestnuts...
Janae Jean
Nov 2, 20196 min read
Music Methods: The Way to Bloom
There are many music method books as well as philosophies and ideas about music education. Large academic libraries are full of...
Janae Jean
Oct 28, 20197 min read
Musical Building Blocks – Creating Melodies with Tetrachords
Just as DNA is made up of the building blocks (nucleotides) that tell cells how to make up organisms, there are building blocks that make...
Janae Jean
Oct 8, 20191 min read
2 New Discount Codes
Announcing TWO NEW DISCOUNT CODES for students! If you are a student new to Perennial, use the code NEWSTUDENT when you book online or...
Janae Jean
Jul 3, 20198 min read
The Musical Bridge: Salute to America's Bandsmen – John Philip Sousa and Glenn Miller
What says, "summer" more than a parade? And, what says, "parade" more than a marching band? Music has been the flint to strike up the fire o
Janae Jean
Jun 24, 20197 min read
What is Music Production? – Part 3: Introducing The Studio Instrument
What do you think of what you hear someone is going "in the studio?" Do you think of the famed recording studios of the past—the hallowed mu
Janae Jean
Jun 23, 20197 min read
What Is Music Production? – Part 2: DAWs
In today's world, a Digital Audio Workstation or a DAW is a software application (or a hardware device) used for recording, editing, and cr
Janae Jean
Jun 19, 201910 min read
The Musical Bridge - Scandinavian Folk Music
Here in Geneva, Illinois, mid-June means Swedish Days, the festival has 200,000 yearly attendees who come from across Illinois and beyond to
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