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 6
- 5 min
Music Theory and Practice – Common Practice Voice Leading
Voice Leading or Chorale Writing What Is Voice Leading? Voice Leading, also called Part Writing or Chorale Style Writing, is...
Janae Jean
- Mar 5
- 3 min
Music Theory and Practice – Figured Bass
Exploring Harmony Through Real Music Beginnings in The Baroque Era The Baroque era was a historical artistic period in Europe that...
Janae Jean
- Dec 27, 2022
- 5 min
Music Theory and Practice – So What's Bach Ever Done for us?
Or, how studying music history makes you a better musician–no matter what genre you work in. Studying the history of music is beneficial...
Janae Jean
- Dec 20, 2022
- 14 min
One Picture Is Worth One Thousand Notes – An Interview with Composer John Dante Prevedini
Our First Featured Interview! For our first interview on the Perennial blog, I spoke with composer and educator John Dante Prevedini. ...
Janae Jean
- Feb 14, 2022
- 6 min
Beauty Is In the Eye (and Ear) of the Beholder – 5 Examples of Augenmusik or Eye Music
Celebrating the Beauty of Love this Valentine's Day In today's multimedia landscape, it's common—and often necessary—for one person to be...
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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jul 8, 2019
- 7 min
Music Theory and Practice – Ring of Fifths
A Guide to the Circle of Fifths and Why You Should Know Them If you are new to music theory and/or composing and songwriting, the image...
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
- Mar 1, 2018
- 14 min
The Art of the VJ: The Origin and History of a Complete Art
VDMX Screen Capture With the constant inundation of audio-visual stimulation, it is difficult for the average person to go for more than...
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