- 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.
Earliest kind of polyphonic music, which developed from the custom of adding voices above a plainchant; they first ran parallel to it at the interval of a fifth or fourth and later moved more freely.
Industry:Music
Early Baroque keyboard instrument in which the strings are plucked by quills instead of being struck with hammers like the piano. Also clavecin.
Industry:Music
Ballroom dance type in triple meter; in the Romantic era, a short, stylized piano piece.
Industry:Music
Mediaeval category of loud instruments, used mainly for outdoor occasions, as distinct from bas, or soft, instruments.
Industry:Music
A short melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic pattern that is repeated throughout a work or a section of one.
Industry:Music
Rock style that gained popularity in the 1970s, characterised by simple, repetitive ideas and loud, distorted instrumental solos.
Industry:Music
Small cylindrical drum with two heads stretched over a metal shell, the lower head having strings across it; played with two drumsticks. Also side drum.
Industry:Music
