- 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.
Book from the Old Testament of the Bible; the 150 psalm texts, used in Jewish and Christian worship, are often set to music.
Industry:Music
Name given to composer Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern; represents the first efforts in twelve-tone composition.
Industry:Music
Comic German drama with spoken dialogue; the immediate predecessor of Romantic German opera.
Industry:Music
A vocal style in which the melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches; developed by Arnold Schoenberg.
Industry:Music
Storm and stress; late eighteenth century movement in Germany toward more emotional expression in the arts.
Industry:Music
Song of praise to God; a text from the Roman Catholic rite, often set polyphonically.
Industry:Music
French serious opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with spectacular dance scenes and brilliant choruses on tales of courtly love or heroic adventures; associated with J.B. Lully.
Industry:Music
Jazz style developed in the 1950s, featuring small groups of mixed timbres playing contrapuntal improvisations; similar to cool jazz.
Industry:Music
Fixed idea, term coined by Berlioz for a recurring musical idea that links different movements of a work.
Industry:Music
