- 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.
Cymbals are two circular brass plates of equal size, which when struck together produce a shattering sound, as heard in this example.
Industry:Music
Two or more streams of harmony played against each other, common in twentieth century music.
Industry:Music
English comic opera, usually featuring spoken dialogue alternating with songs set to popular tunes; also called dialogue opera.
Industry:Music
Two or more melodic lines combined into a multivoiced texture, as distinct from monophonic.
Industry:Music
French poetic form and chanson type of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with courtly love texts. Also a Romantic genre, especially a lyric piano piece.
Industry:Music
A call and response singing practice prevalent in early America and England; characterized by the alternation between a singer leader and a chorus singing heterophonically.
Industry:Music
Fixed time cycle or meter in Indian music, built from uneven groupings of beats.
Industry:Music
