- 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.
A formal principle in which some aspects of the music are altered but the original is still recognizable; it falls between repetition and contrast.
Industry:Music
Percussion instrument consisting of a broad circular disk of metal, suspended in a frame and struck with a heavy drumstick. Also tam-tam.
Industry:Music
Classical instrumental genre that combines elements of chamber music and symphony, often performed in the evening or at social functions. Related to divertimento and cassation.
Industry:Music
The wooden clarinet produces sound via a single reed; a small, thin piece of cane attached to its mouthpiece.
Industry:Music
Twentieth century sacred music style associated with Protestant African-Americans.
Industry:Music
Indeterminate contemporary music in which some details of a composition are clearly indicated, but the overall structure is left to choice or chance.
Industry:Music
Music drama that is generally sung throughout, combining the resources of vocal and instrumental music with poetry and drama, acting and pantomime, scenery and costumes.
Industry:Music
Small fluctuation of pitch used as an expressive device to intensify a sound.
Industry:Music
Bowed-string instrument of middle range; the second-highest member of the violin family.
Industry:Music
