- 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.
Short passage with simple rhythm and harmony that introduces a soloist in a jazz performance.
Industry:Music
Also known as a half step, the smallest interval commonly used in the Western musical system.
Industry:Music
Melody or harmony built from many if not all twelve semitones of the octave. A chromatic scale consists of an ascending or descending sequence of semitones.
Industry:Music
A formal principle in which some aspects of the music are altered but the original is still recognizable; it falls between repetition and contrast.
Industry:Music
Percussion instrument with horizontal, tuned steel bars of various sizes that are struck with mallets and produce a bright metallic sound.
Industry:Music
A weak beat or any pulse between the beats in a measured rhythmic pattern.
Industry:Music
Operatic "realism", a style popular in Italy in the 1890s, which tried to bring naturalism into the lyric theater.
Industry:Music
The first ending in a medieval secular piece, usually cadencing on a pitch other than the final.
Industry:Music
