- Industry: Music
- Number of terms: 16969
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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.
Group of songs, usually Lieder, that are unified musically or through their texts.
Industry:Music
Baroque concerto type based on the opposition between a small group of solo instruments (the concertino) and orchestra (the ripieno).
Industry:Music
Musical setting of the Crucifixion storey as told by one of the four Evangelists in the Gospels.
Industry:Music
A Chinese hammered dulcimer with a trapezoidal sound box and metal strings that are struck with bamboo sticks.
Industry:Music
Creation of a musical composition while it is being performed, seen in Baroque ornamentation, cadenzas of concertos, jazz, and some non-Western musics. See also embellishment.
Industry:Music
Person who, by means of gestures, leads performances of musical ensembles, especially orchestra, bands or choruses.
Industry:Music
Family of string instruments with a sound box over which strings are stretched; they may be plucked or bowed. Zithers appear in many shapes and are common in traditional music throughout Europe, Asia and Africa.
Industry:Music
Brass instrument adapted from the tuba with a forward bell that is coiled to rest over the player's shoulder for ease of carrying while marching.
Industry:Music
Afro-Cuban dance performed at Latin-American Carnival celebrations. Also a single-headed drum of Afro-Cuban origin, played with bare hands.
Industry:Music
