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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.
Music notation system originating in nineteenth century American church music in which the shape of the note heads determines the pitch; created to aid music reading.
Industry:Music
In sonata form, the concluding section of the exposition. Also a brief coda concluding an inner section of a work.
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Large-scale dramatic genre originating in the Baroque, based on a text of religious or serious character, performed by solo voices, chorus and orchestra; similar to opera but without scenery, costumes or action.
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Bowed-string instrument with a middle-to-low range and dark, rich sonority; lower than a viola. See cello.
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Moderate duple meter dance of Cuban origin, popular in the nineteenth century; based on characteristic rhythmic figure.
Industry:Music
A technique drawn from the visual arts whereby musical fragments from other compositions are juxtaposed or overlapped within a new work.
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A performing group of diverse instruments; in Western art music, an ensemble of multiple string parts with various woodwind, brass and percussion instruments.
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Medieval and Renaissance fixed poetic form and chanson type with French courtly texts.
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Smallest interval used in the Western system, the octave divides into twelve such intervals; on the piano, the distance between any two adjacent keys, whether black or white. Also semitone.
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