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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.
Tuning system based on the division of the octave into twelve equal half steps; the normal system used today.
Industry:Music
The major and minor key that share the same key signature; for example, D minor is the relative minor of F major, both having one flat.
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Syncopated, strutting dance of nineteenth century origin; developed among Southern slaves in a parody of white plantation owners.
Industry:Music
The first note of a scale (the tonic or keynote do), which serves as the home base around which the other pitches revolve and to which they ultimately gravitate.
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Bowed, two-string fiddle from China, with its bow hairs fixed between the strings; rests on the leg while playing.
Industry:Music
Performance style with a singing leader who is imitated by a chorus of followers. Also responsorial singing.
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Characterizes music that is based on modes other than major and minor, especially the early church modes.
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