- 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.
Male singer who was castrated during boyhood to preserve the soprano or alto vocal register, prominent in seventeenth and early eighteenth century opera.
Industry:Music
Tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in Neoclassical music.
Industry:Music
Short melodic or rhythmic idea; the smallest fragment of a theme that forms a melodic-harmonic-rhythmic unit.
Industry:Music
The Italian term for "loud", indicated in the musical score by the marking "f".
Industry:Music
The Italian term for "very loud", indicated in the musical score by the marking "ff".
Industry:Music
Borrowed time, common in Romantic music, in which the performer hesitates here or hurries forward there, imparting flexibility to the written note values. Also tempo rubato.
Industry:Music
Nine daughters of Zeus in ancient mythology; each presided over one of the arts.
Industry:Music
