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    Beauty Is In the Eye (and Ear) of the Beholder – 5 Examples of Augenmusik or Eye Music
    Janae Jean
    • Feb 14
    • 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...
    Music Theory and Practice – Introduction to Counterpoint
    Janae Jean
    • Aug 10, 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...
    Women in Music – Ruth Crawford Seeger
    Janae Jean
    • May 7, 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,...
    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...
    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.
    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,...
    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...
    Music Theory and Practice – Ring of Fifths
    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...
    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
    The Art of the VJ:
The Origin and History of a Complete Art
    Janae Jean
    • Mar 2, 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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