Sony Music Entertainment

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.

first-movement concerto form

See concerto form.

Industry:Music

first-movement form

See sonata-allegro form.

Industry:Music

ritornello

A short recurring passage that unifies an instrumental or vocal work.

Industry:Music

fixed forms

Group of forms, especially in medieval France, in which the poetic structure determines musical repetitions. See also ballade, rondeau, virelai.

Industry:Music

rock and roll

American popular music style first heard in the 1950s; derived from the union of African-American rhythm and blues, country-western, and pop music.

Industry:Music

flat sign

Musical symbol (b) that indicates lowering a pitch by a semitone.

Industry:Music

rock band

Popular music ensemble that depends on amplified strings, percussion, and electronically generated sounds.

Industry:Music

fluegelhorn

Valved brass instrument resembling a bugle with a wide bell, used in jazz and commercial music.

Industry:Music

romance

Originally a ballad; in the Romantic era, a lyric instrumental work.

Industry:Music

flute

The flute is a cylindrical metal tube closed at one end that is held horizontally and blown across the mouth hole.

Industry:Music