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...
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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...
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
- Aug 9, 2021
- 9 min
Music Theory and Practice – Introduction to Counterpoint
Bringing the Baroque into the 21st Century What is Counterpoint? Counterpoint refers to an argument, idea, or theme used to create a...
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...
Janae Jean
- May 6, 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,...
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...
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...
Janae Jean
- Jan 31, 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...
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...
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...
Janae Jean
- Oct 20, 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...
Janae Jean
- Sep 21, 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...
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,...
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...
Janae Jean
- Jan 29, 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...
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
Janae Jean
- Dec 1, 2019
- 5 min
Sample This! Part 1
Part 1 of the Sample This! series where we discover what sampling is in music.
Janae Jean
- Nov 24, 2019
- 1 min
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
- 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...