- 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.
Five-note pattern used in some African, Far Eastern and Native American musics; can also be found in Western music as an example of exoticism.
Industry:Music
Indeterminate music in which certain elements of performance (such as pitch, rhythm or form) are left to choice or chance.
Industry:Music
Short, lyric piece or movement, often for piano. Also a comic interlude performed between acts of an eighteenth century opera seria.
Industry:Music
Renaissance polyphonic style in which the motives move from line to line within the texture, often overlapping one another.
Industry:Music
Instrument made of metal, wood, stretched skin or other material that is made to sound by striking, shaking, scraping or plucking. The many varied percussion instruments fall into two basic categories: pitched (such as timpani and xylophone) and unpitched (snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine).
Industry:Music
A dramatic recitative style of the Baroque period in which melodies move freely over a foundation of simple chords.
Industry:Music
Multimedia art form involving visual as well as dramatic and musical elements.
Industry:Music
Mirror or upside-down image of a melody or pattern, found in fugues and twelve-tone compositions.
Industry:Music
Baroque style developed by Monteverdi, which introduced novel effects such as rapid repeated notes as symbols of passion.
Industry:Music
