- Industri: 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.
Plucked-string instrument originally made of wood with a hollow resonating body and a fretted fingerboard; types include acoustic and electric.
Industry:Music
Large-scale dramatic genre originating in the Baroque, based on a text of religious or serious character, performed by solo voices, chorus and orchestra; similar to opera but without scenery, costumes or action.
Industry:Music
Bowed-string instrument with a middle-to-low range and dark, rich sonority; lower than a viola. See cello.
Industry:Music
Moderate duple meter dance of Cuban origin, popular in the nineteenth century; based on characteristic rhythmic figure.
Industry:Music
Instrumental genre in several movements for solo instrument (or instrumental group) and orchestra.
Industry:Music
Baroque form (similar to the chaconne) in moderately slow triple meter, based on a short, repeated base-line melody that serves as the basis for continuous variation in the other voices.
Industry:Music
Genre of American rock that emerged in the late 1960s, often associated with psychedelic drugs. Its style featured heavy amplification, instrumental improvisation, new sound technologies, and light shows.
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
