- Industry: Music
- Number of terms: 16969
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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.
Style of popular music of the 1980s and 1990s, characterized by soothing timbres and repetitive forms that are subjected to shifting variation techniques.
Industry:Music
Short Baroque organ piece in which a traditional chorale melody is embellished.
Industry:Music
Subgenre of rock popular since the late 1970s, highly influenced by simple 1950s-style rock and roll; developed as a rejection of the complexities of art rock and heavy metal.
Industry:Music
Compositional procedure of the twentieth century based on the use of all twelve chromatic tones (in a tone row) without a central tone, or tonic, according to prescribed rules.
Industry:Music
A woodwind instrument made of metal and sounded with a single reed; the saxophone is a more recent instrument addition to the orchestra.
Industry:Music
Baroque organ piece in which a chorale is the basis for a set of variations.
Industry:Music
General music term describing the standard category and overall character of a work.
Industry:Music
A series of tones or pitches in ascending or descending order. Scale tones are often assigned numbers (1-8) or syllables (do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do).
Industry:Music
