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More Than "Just A Singer" – Voices As Instruments In the last post, I introduced the four main voice types, as well as additional...

Classifying the Voice There are four main voice types in choral music: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.

Add These Sounds to Your Earbox In previous posts, we have touched on the instruments of the conventional Western orchestra, some...

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,...

A Brief Introduction to Sampling in Music: Part Three Breakbeats, Turntables, Early Hip Hop In the previous installments, we continued...

Get Inspired this Winter Snow. Ice. Sleet. Slush. Wind chill factors. Here in Chicagoland, it can be tempting to stay home and hibernate...

Part 2 of the Sample This! series where we learn about new instruments including the Mellotron and the Chamberlin

Happy Holidays from Perennial Music and Arts! Ave Maria Schubert's "Ave Maria" contains music that was originally meant to be part of a...

Part 1 of the Sample This! series where we discover what sampling is in music.

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...

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...

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L'Histoire de la Marseillaise – A song of revolution Ba dit dum dum dum dum da dit dum... Video by Engin Akyurt from Pexels Audio by the...

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

Meet your new friend, Mike So far, on our study of "What Is Music Production?" We have discussed the various professionals roles that...

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

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

Here in Geneva, Illinois, mid-June means Swedish Days, the festival has 200,000 yearly attendees who come from across Illinois and beyond to

In today's musical world, there are more options open to musicians than ever before. We have access to DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) whe