- Industry: Music
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- 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.
Substance made from hardened tree sap, rubbed on the hair of a bow to help it grip the strings.
Industry:Music
Male singer who was castrated during boyhood to preserve the soprano or alto vocal register, prominent in seventeenth and early eighteenth century opera.
Industry:Music
Polyphonic vocal genre, secular in the Middle Ages but sacred or devotional thereafter.
Industry:Music
Tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in Neoclassical music.
Industry:Music
Perpetual canon at the unison in which each voice enters in succession with the same melody (for example, "Row, Row, Row Your Boat").
Industry:Music
Percussion instrument resembling a miniature upright piano, with tuned metal plates struck by hammers that are operated by a keyboard.
Industry:Music
Short melodic or rhythmic idea; the smallest fragment of a theme that forms a melodic-harmonic-rhythmic unit.
Industry:Music
The Italian term for "loud", indicated in the musical score by the marking "f".
Industry:Music
Compositional form with two sections, in which the second ends with a return to material from the first; each section is usually repeated.
Industry:Music
