- 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.
Empty orchestra; popular nightclub style from Japan where customers sing the melody to accompanying prerecorded tracks.
Industry:Music
Individual pure sounds that are part of any musical tone; in string instruments, crystalline tones in the very high register, produced by lightly touching a vibrating string at a certain point.
Industry:Music
Type of improvised drama popular in sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy; makes use of stereotyped characters.
Industry:Music
Wind instrument in which air is fed to the pipes by mechanical means; the pipes are controlled by two or more keyboards and a set of pedals.
Industry:Music
The simultaneous combination of notes and the ensuing relationships of intervals and chords. Not all musics of the world rely on harmony for interest, but it is central to most Western music.
Industry:Music
Short instrumental work, found in Baroque opera, to facilitate scene changes.
Industry:Music
The standard voice types, from highest to lowest, are: (female) soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto; (male) tenor, baritone and bass.
Industry:Music
