Music Theory and Practice - Musical Motives or Motifs
Finding The Motivation Motivic Development What Makes A Musical Motive? A musical motive (sometimes motif) is the smallest...
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Janae Jean
- Mar 16, 2022
- 6 min
The Musical Bridge – 4 Traditional Irish Musical Instruments
Music of the Emerald Isle On the Perennial Blog, I have several different ongoing article series, many of which that have been recurring...
Janae Jean
- Nov 22, 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...
Janae Jean
- Sep 18, 2021
- 8 min
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month – 5 Composers to Know
Celebrating Latin American Heritage, Arts, and Culture In the United States, Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 is observed as National Hispanic...
Janae Jean
- Jul 12, 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...
Janae Jean
- Nov 30, 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...
Janae Jean
- Dec 5, 2019
- 5 min
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
- Nov 2, 2019
- 6 min
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, 2019
- 7 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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
- Aug 3, 2019
- 1 min
2019 Back to School Special
Private lessons are a great way to supplement yours or your son or daughter's music education! See the Music for Life blog series for...
Janae Jean
- Jul 12, 2019
- 4 min
The Musical Bridge – Vive la France! 🇫🇷 La Marseillaise
L'Histoire de la Marseillaise – A song of revolution Ba dit dum dum dum dum da dit dum... Video by Engin Akyurt from Pexels Audio by the...
Janae Jean
- Jun 19, 2019
- 10 min
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
Janae Jean
- Jun 1, 2019
- 1 min
Summer Special for High School and College Students
Summer Special for high school and college students!
Janae Jean
- May 28, 2019
- 4 min
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 22, 2019
- 1 min
Happy Earth Day!
DIY Shaker for Elementary School Kids For Earth Day, we celebrate the earth that includes celebrating world cultures and making crafts...
Janae Jean
- Dec 1, 2018
- 5 min
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...
Janae Jean
- Oct 4, 2018
- 6 min
The Musical Child - Part 3
The TWO TYPES of Musical Giftedness Musical intelligence was defined by Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple...
Janae Jean
- Sep 10, 2018
- 5 min
The Musical Child - Part 2
PARENTS & TEACHERS of MUSICALLY GIFTED CHILDREN Musical intelligence was defined by Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind: The Theory...
Janae Jean
- Jun 16, 2018
- 7 min
The Musical Child - Part 1
What is Musical Giftedness? Musical intelligence was defined by Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple...
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