- Industry: Music
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Sony Music Entertainment is one of the largest recorded music companies in the world, headquartered in NYC with offices worldwide. Labels include Burgundy Victor, Columbia, Epic, J-Records, Legacy, Masterworks, Nashville, Provident, RCA Records, Sony Latin, Zomba/Jive.
Composition in A-B-A form, usually in triple meter; replaced the minuet and trio in the nineteenth century.
Industry:Music
World music classification for instruments that produce sound from a vibrating string stretched between two points which is bowed, struck or plucked. The most common Western instruments of this category belong to the string family (violin, harp). The koto (Japan), erhu (China) and the sitar (India) are examples of non-Western chordophones.
Industry:Music
Music lacking a strong sense of beat or meter, common in certain non-Western cultures.
Industry:Music
Interval between two notes of the same pitch; the simultaneous playing of the same note.
Industry:Music
Specialized vocal ensemble that performs popular music, college songs and more serious works.
Industry:Music
Operatic recitative that features a sparse accompaniment and moves with great freedom.
Industry:Music
Fairly large group of singers who perform together, usually with several on each part. Also a choral movement of a large-scale work. In jazz, a single statement of the melodic-harmonic pattern.
Industry:Music
A double-reed instrument made of wood with a nasal, "reedy" timbre. The player blows directly into a double reed (two thin strips of cane bound together), setting them in vibration.
Industry:Music
Last beat of a measure, a weak beat, which anticipates the downbeat (the first beat of the next measure).
Industry:Music
