Sony Music Entertainment

Industry: Music

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Company Profile:

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.

shawm

Medieval wind instrument, the ancestor of the oboe.

Industry:Music

collegium musicum

An association of amateur musicians, popular in the Baroque era. Also a modern university ensemble dedicated to the performance of early music.

Industry:Music

orchestral bells

See chimes.

Industry:Music

virtuoso

Performer of extraordinary technical ability.

Industry:Music

harmonica

Mouth organ; a small metal box on which free reeds are mounted, played by moving back and forth across the mouth while breathing into it.

Industry:Music

sheng

A reed mouth organ from China.

Industry:Music

comic opera

See opéra comique.

Industry:Music

orchestration

The technique of setting instruments in various combinations.

Industry:Music

vivace

Lively.

Industry:Music

harmonics

Individual pure sounds that are part of any musical tone; in string instruments, crystalline tones in the very high register, produced by lightly touching a vibrating string at a certain point.

Industry:Music