- Industry: Music
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- Company Profile:
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.
Subgenre of rock popular since the mid 1970s, characterized by loud volume levels, driving rhythms and simple forms typical of earlier rock and roll; often contains shocking lyrics and offensive behavior.
Industry:Music
Percussion instrument that is a mellower version of the xylophone; of African origin.
Industry:Music
Melodic idea used as a basic building block in the construction of a composition. Also subject.
Industry:Music
Subdivision of the seven liberal arts; includes the mathematical subjects of music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy.
Industry:Music
English genre of aristocratic entertainment that combined vocal and instrumental music with poetry and dance, developed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Industry:Music
Compositional procedure in which a theme is stated and then altered in successive statements; occurs as an independent piece or as a movement of a sonata cycle.
Industry:Music
