- 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 pair of small drums of differing pitches, held between the legs and struck with both hands, of Afro-Cuban origin.
Industry:Music
Organisation of rhythm in time; the grouping of beats into larger, regular patterns, notated as measures. In simple meters, such as duple, triple, and quadruple, each beat subdivides into two; in compound meters, such as sextuple, each beat divides into three.
Industry:Music
Solo vocal declamation that follows the inflexions of the text, often resulting in a disjunct vocal style; found in opera, cantata, and oratorio.
Industry:Music
Device used to indicate the tempo by sounding regular beats at adjustable speeds.
Industry:Music
Virtuoso composition, generally for organ or harpsichord, in a free and rhapsodic style; in the Baroque, it often served as the introduction to a fugue.
Industry:Music
End-blown woodwind instrument with a whistle mouthpiece, generally associated with early music.
Industry:Music
