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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.
A rhythmic grouping or metrical unit that contains a fixed number of beats; in notated music, it appears as a vertical line through the staff.
Industry:Music
Jazz style that synthesizes characteristics and techniques of classical music and jazz; term coined by Gunther Schuller.
Industry:Music
See contrabassoon.
Industry:Music
Performing forces employed in a certain musical work.
Industry:Music
See figured bass.
Industry:Music
In the concerto, twofold statement of the themes, once by the orchestra and once by the soloist.
Industry:Music
Large jazz ensemble popular in 1930s and 1940s, featuring sections of trumpets, trombones, saxophones (and other woodwinds), and rhythm instruments (piano, double bass, drums and guitar).
Industry:Music
Melodic style characterized by many notes sung to a single text syllable.
Industry:Music
See ternary form.
Industry:Music
Succession of single tones or pitches perceived by the mind as a unity.
Industry:Music