- 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.
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
Basic metrical pattern of four beats to a measure; also common time.
Industry:Music
Beautiful singing; elegant Italian vocal style characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility, smoothness and purity of tone.
Industry:Music
Long stick with bells suspended from it, adopted from Janissary music.
Industry:Music
Lion; a cappella choral singing style of South African Zulus, featuring call and response patterns, close-knit harmonies and syncopation.
Industry:Music
Harmony based on the interval of the fourth as opposed to a third; used in twentieth century music.
Industry:Music
