- Industria: 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.
Percussion instruments consisting of small wooden clappers that are struck together. They are widely used to accompany Spanish dancing.
Industry:Music
Baroque chamber sonata type written in three parts: two melody lines and the basso continuo; requires a total of four players to perform.
Industry:Music
The structure or shape of a musical work, based on repetition, contrast and variation; the organizing principle in music. Binary and ternary are basic forms, while more complex forms include sonata-allegro, rondo, minuet and trio, theme and variations, ritornello, and fugue.
Industry:Music
Substance made from hardened tree sap, rubbed on the hair of a bow to help it grip the strings.
Industry:Music
Male singer who was castrated during boyhood to preserve the soprano or alto vocal register, prominent in seventeenth and early eighteenth century opera.
Industry:Music
Polyphonic vocal genre, secular in the Middle Ages but sacred or devotional thereafter.
Industry:Music
Perpetual canon at the unison in which each voice enters in succession with the same melody (for example, "Row, Row, Row Your Boat").
Industry:Music
