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...
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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...
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
- 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
- Oct 19, 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.
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
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
- 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
- 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
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...
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
Janae Jean
- Jun 23, 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
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
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
- 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
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