- Branche: 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.
Melody or harmony built from many if not all twelve semitones of the octave. A chromatic scale consists of an ascending or descending sequence of semitones.
Industry:Music
Percussion instrument consisting of a broad circular disk of metal, suspended in a frame and struck with a heavy drumstick. Also tam-tam.
Industry:Music
The wooden clarinet produces sound via a single reed; a small, thin piece of cane attached to its mouthpiece.
Industry:Music
Twentieth century sacred music style associated with Protestant African-Americans.
Industry:Music
A percussion instrument with metal bars and electrically driven rotating propellers under each bar that produces a vibrato sound, much used in jazz.
Industry:Music
A group of singers who perform together, usually in parts, with several on each part; often associated with a church.
Industry:Music
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
Subgenre of rock popular since the late 1970s, highly influenced by simple 1950s-style rock and roll; developed as a rejection of the complexities of art rock and heavy metal.
Industry:Music
A woodwind instrument made of metal and sounded with a single reed; the saxophone is a more recent instrument addition to the orchestra.
Industry:Music
