Celebrating the 20th Annual Jazz Appreciation Month - "Ellas" Edition
The Stories Behind the Songs April is Jazz Appreciation Month, also cleverly called as "JAM."The Smithsonian's Museum of American History...
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Nov 30, 202010 min read
Musical Innovations – Harry Partch Instruments
Inventor and Composer In previous posts, we've focused on the instruments played in the conventional Western orchestra, some instruments...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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Dec 5, 20195 min read
Songs of the Season 2019
Happy Holidays from Perennial Music and Arts! Ave Maria Schubert's "Ave Maria" contains music that was originally meant to be part of a...
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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...
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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
Jul 8, 20197 min read
Music Theory and Practice – Ring of Fifths
A Guide to the Circle of Fifths and Why You Should Know Them If you are new to music theory and/or composing and songwriting, the image...
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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
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Jun 28, 20197 min read
What is Music Production? – Part 4 – Microphone Basics
Meet your new friend, Mike So far, on our study of "What Is Music Production?" We have discussed the various professionals roles that...
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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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Jun 1, 20197 min read
Performance 101 – Stage Fright
When you imagine a musical performance, a variety of places such as coffee houses, recital halls, college campuses, bars and restaurants, o
Janae Jean
May 28, 20194 min read
Music Theory and Practice – Why Study Music Theory?
Some detractors of music theory say that studying it limits musicians. However, this is false. Simply because we know the rules does not lim
Janae Jean
Apr 29, 20191 min read
Crossword Answer Key
Here are the answers to the Fun with Music and Arts Crossword! If you stumbled upon this without seeing the crossword and work search, go...
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Apr 29, 20191 min read
Fun with Music and Arts!
Here are two fun learning activities that we created for you! The first one is a crossword puzzle and the second is a word search. The...
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Feb 13, 20196 min read
Mindfulness for Musicians
"Mindfulness" has become a buzzword in the last few years. It is often associated with calm and peace of mind. It is a concept that is...
Janae Jean
Dec 1, 20185 min read
Holiday Song Stories 2018
The Stories Behind Some of Our Favorite Holiday Songs In the Bleak Midwinter "In the Bleak Midwinter” is a Christmas carol based on a...
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May 23, 20185 min read
The Musical Bridge – Indus Valley: Saintly Music – Sufis & Sikhs
The Indian subcontinent has a diverse range of musical styles, instruments, and genres. The different cultural, lingual, and religious...
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