- 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.
Jazz term coined to describe Louis Armstrong's style; more commonly refers to big band jazz.
Industry:Music
Performance direction to pluck a string of a bowed instrument with the finger.
Industry:Music
Instrument sounded by means of a keyboard (a series of keys played with the fingers). The most commonly recognized keyboard instruments are the piano, organ, harpsichord and synthesizer, a recent invention.
Industry:Music
Electronic instrument that produces a wide variety of sounds by combining sound generators and sound modifiers in one package with a unified control system.
Industry:Music
Wind instrument popular in Eastern and Western Europe that has several tubes, one of which plays the melody while the others sound the drones, or sustained notes; a windbag is filled by either a mouth pipe or a set of bellows (uilleann pipes).
Industry:Music
Guitar-like instrument of Russia with a triangular body, fretted neck and three strings; often used in traditional music and dance.
Industry:Music
Cymbals are two circular brass plates of equal size, which when struck together produce a shattering sound, as heard in this example.
Industry:Music
