- 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.
Brass instrument adapted from the tuba with a forward bell that is coiled to rest over the player's shoulder for ease of carrying while marching.
Industry:Music
Afro-Cuban dance performed at Latin-American Carnival celebrations. Also a single-headed drum of Afro-Cuban origin, played with bare hands.
Industry:Music
Groupings of irregular numbers of beats that add up to a larger, overall pattern (2 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 10).
Industry:Music
Small alteration of the pitch by a microtonal interval. See also blue note.
Industry:Music
Folklike devotional genre of the United States, sung by African-Americans and whites.
Industry:Music
World music classification for instruments that produce sound by using air as the primary vibrating means, such as flute, trumpet or whistle. The most common Western instruments of this category belong to the woodwind and brass families. Bagpipes are aerophones frequently used in some traditional music.
Industry:Music
Mechanism that generates musical vibrations and transmits them into the air.
Industry:Music
