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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.
Mirror or upside-down image of a melody or pattern, found in fugues and twelve-tone compositions.
Industry:Music
A musical style created mainly by African-Americans in the early twentieth century that blended elements drawn from African musics with the popular and art traditions of the West.
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
Contrast of musical materials sustains our interest and feeds our love of change; it provides variety to a form.
Industry:Music
Second entry of the subject in a fugue, usually pitched a fourth below or a fifth above the subject.
Industry:Music
Instrumental ensemble made up of reeds (saxophones and clarinets), brass (trumpets and trombones), and rhythm sections (percussion, piano, double bass and sometimes guitar).
Industry:Music
The string quartet was one of the most common chamber ensembles. Its makeup is two violins, viola and cello.
Industry:Music
Keyboard instrument whose strings are struck with hammers controlled by a keyboard mechanism; pedals control dampers in the strings that stop the sound when the finger releases the key.
Industry:Music
