- 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.
Rock style that gained popularity in the 1970s, characterized by simple, repetitive ideas and loud, distorted instrumental solos.
Industry:Music
Small cylindrical drum with two heads stretched over a metal shell, the lower head having strings across it; played with two drumsticks. Also side drum.
Industry:Music
An introductory movement, as in an opera or oratorio, often presenting melodies from arias to come. Also an orchestral work for concert performance.
Industry:Music
Scale pattern built entirely of whole step intervals, common in the music of the French Impressionists.
Industry:Music
Seven-note scale; in non-Western musics, often fashioned from a different combination of intervals than major and minor scales.
Industry:Music
Lyrical, gentle rock style that evolved around 1960 in response to hard-driving rock and roll.
Industry:Music
Instrumental ensemble ranging from forty to eighty members or more, consisting of wind and percussion instruments. Also wind ensemble.
Industry:Music
Wind instrument consisting of a series of small vertical tubes or pipes of differing length; sound is produced by blowing across the top.
Industry:Music
