- 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.
Two or more melodic lines combined into a multivoiced texture, as distinct from monophonic.
Industry:Music
French poetic form and chanson type of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with courtly love texts. Also a Romantic genre, especially a lyric piano piece.
Industry:Music
Fixed time cycle or meter in Indian music, built from uneven groupings of beats.
Industry:Music
The simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns or meters, common in twentieth-century music and in certain African musics.
Industry:Music
The dynamic effect of gradually growing softer, indicated in the musical score by the marking ">". Also referred to as diminuendo.
Industry:Music
Plucked-string instrument with round body in the form of a single-headed drum and a long, fretted neck; brought to the Americas from Africa by early slaves.
Industry:Music
Ancient plucked-string instrument of the harp family, used to accompany singing and poetry.
Industry:Music
Structural reshaping of thematic material. Second section of sonata-allegro form; it moves through a series of foreign keys while themes from the exposition are manipulated.
Industry:Music
