- Industry: Music
- Number of terms: 16969
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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.
Afro-Brazilian dance, characterized by duple meter, responsorial singing, and polyrhythmic accompaniments.
Industry:Music
A group of singers who perform together, usually in parts, with several on each part; often associated with a church.
Industry:Music
Subgenre of rock popular since the late 1970s, highly influenced by simple 1950s-style rock and roll; developed as a rejection of the complexities of art rock and heavy metal.
Industry:Music
A woodwind instrument made of metal and sounded with a single reed; the saxophone is a more recent instrument addition to the orchestra.
Industry:Music
General music term describing the standard category and overall character of a work.
Industry:Music
A series of tones or pitches in ascending or descending order. Scale tones are often assigned numbers (1-8) or syllables (do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do).
Industry:Music
A double-reed instrument made of wood with a nasal, "reedy" timbre. The player blows directly into a double reed (two thin strips of cane bound together), setting them in vibration.
Industry:Music
Interval between two tones seven diatonic pitches apart; the lower note vibrates half as fast as the upper and sounds an octave lower.
Industry:Music
