- 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.
Beautiful singing; elegant Italian vocal style characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility, smoothness and purity of tone.
Industry:Music
Melodic pattern used in music of India; prescribes pitches, patterns, ornamentation and extramusical associations such as time of performance and emotional character.
Industry:Music
Two-part (A-B) form is based on statement and departure. Also two-part form.
Industry:Music
Subgenre of rock in which rhymed lyrics are spoken over rhythm tracks; developed by African-Americans in the 1970s and widely disseminated in the 1980s and 1990s.
Industry:Music
African-American form of secular folk music, related to jazz, that is based on a simple, repetitive poetic-musical structure.
Industry:Music
Percussion instrument consisting of a hemispheric copper shell with a head of plastic or calfskin, held in place by a metal ring and played with soft or hard padded sticks. A pedal mechanism changes the tension of the head, and with it the pitch. Also kettledrums.
Industry:Music
