- 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 performing group of diverse instruments; in Western art music, an ensemble of multiple string parts with various woodwind, brass and percussion instruments.
Industry:Music
Mediaeval and Renaissance fixed poetic form and chanson type with French courtly texts.
Industry:Music
Smallest interval used in the Western system, the octave divides into twelve such intervals; on the piano, the distance between any two adjacent keys, whether black or white. Also semitone.
Industry:Music
An association of amateur musicians, popular in the Baroque era. Also a modern university ensemble dedicated to the performance of early music.
Industry:Music
Mouth organ; a small metal box on which free reeds are mounted, played by moving back and forth across the mouth while breathing into it.
Industry:Music
Individual pure sounds that are part of any musical tone; in string instruments, crystalline tones in the very high register, produced by lightly touching a vibrating string at a certain point.
Industry:Music
Type of improvised drama popular in sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy; makes use of stereotyped characters.
Industry:Music
Organ-like instrument with free metal reeds set in vibration by a bellows; popular in late nineteenth century America.
Industry:Music
Grouping of rhythms in which the beat is subdivided into two, as in duple, triple, and quadruple meters.
Industry:Music
