- 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.
Italian for "continuous bass". See figured bass. Also refers to performance group with a bass, chordal instrument (harpsichord, organ), and one bass melody instrument (cello, bassoon).
Industry:Music
Instrumental ensemble for entertainment at sports events and parades, consisting of wind and percussion instruments, drum majors/majorettes, and baton twirlers.
Industry:Music
Musical expansion of a theme by varying its melodic outline, harmony or rhythm. Also thematic transformation.
Industry:Music
Medieval plucked-string instrument similar to the modern zither, consisting of a sound box over which strings were stretched.
Industry:Music
The bassoon is a double-reed instrument made of wood. Its relative, the contrabassoon, heard here, is the lowest pitched and weightiest sounding woodwind instrument.
Industry:Music
Traditional Mexican ensemble popular throughout the country, consisting of trumpets, violins, guitar and bass guitar.
Industry:Music
