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    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...
    Holiday Special 2020
    Janae Jean
    • Dec 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    Holiday Special 2020

    Announcing the Holiday Special 2020! What are your favorite holiday memories? Baking cookies, finding the perfect gift for your loved...
    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.
    Welcome to The Virtual Classroom
    Janae Jean
    • Sep 5, 2020
    • 7 min

    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
    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,...
    Music Methods: The Way to Bloom
    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...
    Musical Building Blocks – Creating Melodies with Tetrachords
    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...
    2 New Discount Codes
    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...
    The Musical Bridge: Salute to America's Bandsmen – John Philip  Sousa and Glenn Miller
    Janae Jean
    • Jul 3, 2019
    • 8 min

    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
    What is Music Production? – Part 4 – Microphone Basics
    Janae Jean
    • Jun 28, 2019
    • 7 min

    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...
    What is Music Production? – Part 3: Introducing The Studio Instrument
    Janae Jean
    • Jun 24, 2019
    • 7 min

    What is Music Production? – Part 3: Introducing The Studio Instrument

    What do you think of what you hear someone is going "in the studio?" Do you think of the famed recording studios of the past—the hallowed mu
    What Is Music Production? – Part 2: DAWs
    Janae Jean
    • Jun 24, 2019
    • 7 min

    What Is Music Production? – Part 2: DAWs

    In today's world, a Digital Audio Workstation or a DAW is a software application (or a hardware device) used for recording, editing, and cr
    What Is Music Production? Part 1 – Roles & Goals
    Janae Jean
    • Jun 17, 2019
    • 7 min

    What Is Music Production? Part 1 – Roles & Goals

    In today's musical world, there are more options open to musicians than ever before. We have access to DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) whe
    Summer Special for High School and College Students
    Janae Jean
    • Jun 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    Summer Special for High School and College Students

    Summer Special for high school and college students!
    Performance 101 – Stage Fright
    Janae Jean
    • Jun 1, 2019
    • 7 min

    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
    Music Theory and Practice – Why Study Music Theory?
    Janae Jean
    • May 29, 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
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