Sony Music Entertainment

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.

gagaku

Traditional court music of Japan.

Industry:Music

sampler

Electronic device that digitizes, stores and plays back sounds.

Industry:Music

choir

A group of singers who perform together, usually in parts, with several on each part; often associated with a church.

Industry:Music

neumes

Early musical notation signs; square notes on a four-line staff.

Industry:Music

galliard

Lively, triple-meter French court dance.

Industry:Music

sarabande

Stately Spanish Baroque dance type in triple meter, a standard movement of the Baroque suite.

Industry:Music

chorale

Baroque congregational hymn of the German Lutheran church.

Industry:Music

new age

Style of popular music of the 1980s and 1990s, characterized by soothing timbres and repetitive forms that are subjected to shifting variation techniques.

Industry:Music

twelve-bar blues

Musical structure based on a repeated harmonic-rhythmic pattern that is twelve measures in length (I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-V-I-I).

Industry:Music

gamelan

Musical ensemble of Java or Bali, made up of gongs, chimes, metallophones and drums, among other instruments.

Industry:Music