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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.
The members of the string family include two types of instruments: bowed and plucked. The standard bowed string instruments, from highest to lowest, are violin, viola, cello and double bass. The harp and guitar are common plucked string instruments. String instruments often play special effects, including trill, pizzicato, harmonic and arpeggio. Also chordophone.
Industry:Music
Contrast of musical materials sustains our interest and feeds our love of change; it provides variety to a form.
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The Italian term for "very soft", indicated in the musical score by the marking "pp".
Industry:Music
Second entry of the subject in a fugue, usually pitched a fourth below or a fifth above the subject.
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Instrumental ensemble made up of reeds (saxophones and clarinets), brass (trumpets and trombones), and rhythm sections (percussion, piano, double bass and sometimes guitar).
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The string quartet was one of the most common chamber ensembles. Its makeup is two violins, viola and cello.
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A substyle of bebop, characterised by a restrained, unemotional performance with lush harmonies, moderate volume levels and tempos, and a new lyricism; often associated with Miles Davis.
Industry:Music
Keyboard instrument whose strings are struck with hammers controlled by a keyboard mechanism; pedals control dampers in the strings that stop the sound when the finger releases the key.
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A religious choral composition in English; performed liturgically, the Protestant equivalent of the motet.
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Literally "adding flowers"; an embellishment style in Chinese music using various ornamental figures.
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