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...
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Janae Jean
Sep 6, 20207 min read
Orchestration Basics 2 – Families of Sounds
An auditory family reunion In my last post, Orchestration Basics – What is the Orchestra?, we learned a little background on the...
Janae Jean
Sep 5, 20208 min read
Orchestration Basics 1 – What is the Orchestra?
Meet the Orchestra What sounds do you hear or sights do you see in your mind when you think of the "orchestra?" Perhaps, you hear certain...
Janae Jean
Sep 5, 20207 min read
Welcome to The Virtual Classroom
If you are an educator, you may wonder how you can communicate effectively in the virtual space. And, if you are a learner, you may have a d
Janae Jean
Sep 5, 20201 min read
Back to School Fall Special 2020
Stay Safe and Save! Announcing the Back-to-School/Fall 2020 Remote Learning Special! Save an additional 20% off a four-lesson remote...
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
May 11, 20203 min read
Women in Music – Hildegard von Bingen
This week, we celebrate mothers of all kinds on Mother's Day. This year Mother's Day happened to fall on May 10, which is also the date...
Janae Jean
May 5, 20202 min read
Following The Music Map – Musical Form – Part 3
If you have ever performed a large solo instrumental work or chamber music work—especially of the Classical Era—or played a part in an...
Janae Jean
Mar 9, 20205 min read
Following the Musical Map – Musical Form – Part 2
An Introduction to Form – Simple Forms In this post, we continue our exploration of simple musical forms. You can find Part 1 on...
Janae Jean
Feb 24, 20206 min read
Following the Musical Map – Musical Form – Part 1
An Introduction to Form – Simple Forms Our brains crave the familiar. Listening to music in familiar forms is one-way that our brains are...
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 30, 20201 min read
Share the Love of Music This February
New Discount Code for Referrals $10-off Discount Code for existing students when you refer a student and that student books and completes...
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 27, 20203 min read
Meet MIDI 2.0
Meet MIDI 2.0 – The Second Generation Is Here In the previous post from 2018 What Is MIDI?, we met MIDI and got acquainted. To sum up,...
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 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...
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...
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