- Industry: 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.
Music that has no literary, dramatic, or pictorial program. Also pure music.
Industry:Music
Texture in which two or more voices (or parts) elaborate the same melody simultaneously, often the result of improvisation.
Industry:Music
Single-movement concert piece for orchestra, typically from the Romantic period and often based on a literary program.
Industry:Music
Theatrical genre in which an actor silently plays all the parts in a show while accompanied by singing; originated in ancient Rome.
Industry:Music
The woodwind family is less homogeneous in construction and sound production than the strings; it includes the piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet and bassoon. The saxophone is a more recent woodwind instrument that is frequently heard in jazz.
Industry:Music
Texture with principal melody and accompanying harmony, as distinct from polyphony.
Industry:Music
General music term describing the multimovement structure found in sonatas, string quartets, symphonies, concertos and large-scale works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Industry:Music
