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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.
Classical instrumental genre for chamber ensemble or soloist, often performed as light entertainment. Related to serenade and cassation.
Industry:Music
Multimovement programmatic orchestral work, typically from the nineteenth century.
Industry:Music
A style incorporating characteristics of military music, including strongly accented duple-meter in simple, repetitive rhythmic patterns.
Industry:Music
The interweaving of melodic (horizontal) and harmonic (vertical) elements in the musical fabric. Texture is generally described as monophonic (single line), heterophonic (elaboration on a single line), homophonic (single line with accompaniment), or polyphonic (many voiced).
Industry:Music
Italian for "continuous bass". See figured bass. Also refers to performance group with a bass, chordal instrument (harpsichord, organ), and one bass melody instrument (cello, bassoon).
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Instrumental ensemble for entertainment at sports events and parades, consisting of wind and percussion instruments, drum majors/majorettes, and baton twirlers.
Industry:Music
Medieval plucked-string instrument similar to the modern zither, consisting of a sound box over which strings were stretched.
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The bassoon is a double-reed instrument made of wood. Its relative, the contrabassoon, heard here, is the lowest pitched and weightiest sounding woodwind instrument.
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