- 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.
German dance in moderate duple time, popular during the Renaissance and Baroque periods; often the first movement of a Baroque suite.
Industry:Music
Medieval and early Renaissance motet based on a repeating rhythmic pattern throughout one or more voices.
Industry:Music
Traditional Mexican dance form with multiple sections in contrasting meters and tempos, often performed by mariachi mariachi ensembles.
Industry:Music
The members of the string family include two types of instruments: bowed and plucked. The standard bowed string instruments, from highest to lowest, are violin, viola, cello and double bass. The harp and guitar are common plucked string instruments. String instruments often play special effects, including trill, pizzicato, harmonic and arpeggio. Also chordophone.
Industry:Music
Second entry of the subject in a fugue, usually pitched a fourth below or a fifth above the subject.
Industry:Music
A substyle of bebop, characterized by a restrained, unemotional performance with lush harmonies, moderate volume levels and tempos, and a new lyricism; often associated with Miles Davis.
Industry:Music
A religious choral composition in English; performed liturgically, the Protestant equivalent of the motet.
Industry:Music
Literally "adding flowers"; an embellishment style in Chinese music using various ornamental figures.
Industry:Music
