- 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.
A musical instrument with a small keyboard and free-vibrating metal reeds that sound when air is generated by pleated bellows.
Industry:Music
The xylophone, a pitched percussion instrument of African origin, consists of tuned blocks of wood laid out in the shape of a keyboard.
Industry:Music
Musical setting of the Crucifixion story as told by one of the four Evangelists in the Gospels.
Industry:Music
Creation of a musical composition while it is being performed, seen in Baroque ornamentation, cadenzas of concertos, jazz, and some non-Western musics. See also embellishment.
Industry:Music
Mechanism that generates musical vibrations and transmits them into the air.
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
