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    The Musical Bridge – Celebrating Cherry Blossom Season with Japanese Arts – Creating A Haiku Song
    Janae Jean
    • May 13
    • 4 min

    The Musical Bridge – Celebrating Cherry Blossom Season with Japanese Arts – Creating A Haiku Song

    The Musical Bridge – Celebrating Cherry Blossom Season with Japanese Arts – Part 2 – Hanami and Haiku In our previous post, we were...
    How To Be A PRO – Performing Rights Organizations
    Janae Jean
    • Mar 29
    • 5 min

    How To Be A PRO – Performing Rights Organizations

    What are a performing rights organizations they and what do they do for music creators? You’ve been creating music for a while now, and...
    Five Ways to Celebrate National Native American History Month
    Janae Jean
    • Nov 23, 2021
    • 5 min

    Five Ways to Celebrate National Native American History Month

    Honor the Cultures of Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island No, Columbus did not “discover the America” in 1942, nor were the Pilgrims who...
    Music & Arts at the Movies – 5 Composer Biopics for Movie Night
    Janae Jean
    • Jul 13, 2021
    • 12 min

    Music & Arts at the Movies – 5 Composer Biopics for Movie Night

    5 Baroque and Classical Composer Biopics Music and movies have gone together since the earliest days of cinema. Silent films were...
    Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Artists
    Janae Jean
    • May 21, 2021
    • 15 min

    Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Artists

    May is #AAPIHeritageMonth May is Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a celebration of Asiana and Pacific Islanders in the...
    Women in Music – Ruth Crawford Seeger
    Janae Jean
    • May 7, 2021
    • 12 min

    Women in Music – Ruth Crawford Seeger

    Ruth Crawford Seeger: Modernist Composer, Music Educator, Ethnomusicologist, and Mother Before we get into our Mother's Day themed post,...
    Happy Star Wars Day! The Man Behind Its Music – John Williams
    Janae Jean
    • May 4, 2021
    • 7 min

    Happy Star Wars Day! The Man Behind Its Music – John Williams

    Celebrating The Legendary Career of American Composer John Williams Before we get into our celebration of Star Wars Day with a bit about...
    Celebrating the 20th Annual Jazz Appreciation Month - "Ellas" Edition
    Janae Jean
    • Apr 18, 2021
    • 17 min

    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...
    Celebrating the 20th Annual Jazz Appreciation Month - Fellas Edition
    Janae Jean
    • Apr 15, 2021
    • 11 min

    Celebrating the 20th Annual Jazz Appreciation Month - Fellas Edition

    The Stories Behind the Songs April is Jazz Appreciation Month, also cleverly called as "JAM."It was founded at the Smithsonian's Museum...
    Arts At Home – Contemplate, Connect, Create
    Janae Jean
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 4 min

    Arts At Home – Contemplate, Connect, Create

    Five Creativity Challenges for Artists of All Ages This February Here in Chicagoland, February is one bitterly cold, sometimes...
    Musical Innovations – Harry Partch Instruments
    Janae Jean
    • Dec 1, 2020
    • 10 min

    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...
    Music for the Dead – The Requiem
    Janae Jean
    • Nov 2, 2020
    • 12 min

    Music for the Dead – The Requiem

    Music for Remembrance We've reached Fall 2020, a year that will no doubt be remembered as a year of transition and mourning. This past...
    Announcement! Join Us On Patreon
    Janae Jean
    • Nov 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
    Orchestration Basics – Understanding the Voice
    Janae Jean
    • Oct 21, 2020
    • 8 min

    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...
    Orchestration Basics – Choir – Voices Types
    Janae Jean
    • Oct 20, 2020
    • 10 min

    Orchestration Basics – Choir – Voices Types

    Classifying the Voice There are four main voice types in choral music: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.
    Musical Innovations – Six Unique Instruments
    Janae Jean
    • Sep 22, 2020
    • 9 min

    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...
    Four Types of Texture in Music
    Janae Jean
    • Aug 11, 2020
    • 6 min

    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,...
    Sample This! Part 3
    Janae Jean
    • Feb 8, 2020
    • 6 min

    Sample This! Part 3

    A Brief Introduction to Sampling in Music: Part Three Breakbeats, Turntables, Early Hip Hop In the previous installments, we continued...
    Free in February!
    Janae Jean
    • Jan 30, 2020
    • 6 min

    Free in February!

    Get Inspired this Winter Snow. Ice. Sleet. Slush. Wind chill factors. Here in Chicagoland, it can be tempting to stay home and hibernate...
    Sample This! Part 2
    Janae Jean
    • Jan 24, 2020
    • 4 min

    Sample This! Part 2

    Part 2 of the Sample This! series where we learn about new instruments including the Mellotron and the Chamberlin
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