- 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.
Medieval plucked-string instrument similar to the modern zither, consisting of a sound box over which strings were stretched.
Industry:Music
The bassoon is a double-reed instrument made of wood. Its relative, the contrabassoon, heard here, is the lowest pitched and weightiest sounding woodwind instrument.
Industry:Music
Percussion instrument that is a mellower version of the xylophone; of African origin.
Industry:Music
Melodic idea used as a basic building block in the construction of a composition. Also subject.
Industry:Music
Compositional procedure in which a theme is stated and then altered in successive statements; occurs as an independent piece or as a movement of a sonata cycle.
Industry:Music
Basic metrical pattern of four beats to a measure; also common time.
Industry:Music
