- 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.
Collective term for popular third-world musics, ethnic and traditional musics, and eclectic combinations of Western and non-Western musics. Also ethno-pop.
Industry:Music
Genre of American rock that emerged in the late 1960s, often associated with psychedelic drugs. Its style featured heavy amplification, instrumental improvisation, new sound technologies, and light shows.
Industry:Music
World music classification for instruments that produce sound from the substance of the instrument itself by being struck, blown, shaken, scraped or rubbed. The most common Western instruments in this category belong to the percussion family. Examples include cymbals, triangle, gong and maracas.
Industry:Music
The opening movement of the sonata cycle, consisting of themes that are stated in the first section (exposition), developed in the second section (development), and restated in the third section (recapitulation). Also sonata form or first-movement form.
Industry:Music
Structure commonly used in first movements of concertos that combines elements of Baroque ritornello procedure with sonata-allegro form. Also first-movement concerto form.
Industry:Music
The xylophone, a pitched percussion instrument of African origin, consists of tuned blocks of wood laid out in the shape of a keyboard.
Industry:Music
Indication that gives the performer the liberty to omit a section or to improvise.
Industry:Music
Compositional technique in which a melodic idea is presented in one voice (or part), then restated in another while the first voice continues with new material.
Industry:Music
Group of songs, usually Lieder, that are unified musically or through their texts.
Industry:Music
