- 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.
Solo vocal declamation that follows the inflections of the text, often resulting in a disjunct vocal style; found in opera, cantata, and oratorio.
Industry:Music
Device used to indicate the tempo by sounding regular beats at adjustable speeds.
Industry:Music
Virtuoso composition, generally for organ or harpsichord, in a free and rhapsodic style; in the Baroque, it often served as the introduction to a fugue.
Industry:Music
The Italian term for "moderately loud", indicated in the musical score by the marking "mf".
Industry:Music
Element of musical expression relating to the degree of loudness or softness, or volume, of a sound.
Industry:Music
Type of polyphonic composition in which one musical line strictly imitates another at a fixed distance throughout.
Industry:Music
