- 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.
Compositional procedure in which a theme is stated and then altered in successive statements; occurs as an independent piece or as a movement of a sonata cycle.
Industry:Music
Beautiful singing; elegant Italian vocal style characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility, smoothness and purity of tone.
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
African-American form of secular folk music, related to jazz, that is based on a simple, repetitive poetic-musical structure.
Industry:Music
Percussion instrument consisting of a hemispheric copper shell with a head of plastic or calfskin, held in place by a metal ring and played with soft or hard padded sticks. A pedal mechanism changes the tension of the head, and with it the pitch. Also kettledrums.
Industry:Music
Solo vocal declamation that follows the inflections of the text, often resulting in a disjunct vocal style; found in opera, cantata, and oratorio.
Industry:Music
Commercial dance music popular in the 1970s, characterized by strong percussion in a quadruple meter.
Industry:Music
