New word? / technical term?

[Michael H Covarrubias]

I've heard it referring to the passage that plays out a piece. often a repeated
and fading segment.

OED has it with a first cite 1967
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A concluding section, esp. of a piece of music or a broadcast programme. Freq.
contrasted with intro.
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michael


Quoting Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>:
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> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26149/sound-studio-monbot%3a-bookend-audio
>
> [P]lugin adds an -intro_ and [an] _outro_ to an audio [file].
>
> I'm not hip enough to this stuff to know what an "outro" is.
>
> -Wilson

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