- 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.
Small alteration of the pitch by a microtonal interval. See also blue note.
Industry:Music
Folklike devotional genre of the United States, sung by African-Americans and whites.
Industry:Music
Indeterminate music in which certain elements of performance (such as pitch, rhythm or form) are left to choice or chance.
Industry:Music
Short, lyric piece or movement, often for piano. Also a comic interlude performed between acts of an eighteenth century opera seria.
Industry:Music
Renaissance polyphonic style in which the motives move from line to line within the texture, often overlapping one another.
Industry:Music
Instrument made of metal, wood, stretched skin or other material that is made to sound by striking, shaking, scraping or plucking. The many varied percussion instruments fall into two basic categories: pitched (such as timpani and xylophone) and unpitched (snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine).
Industry:Music
