New word? / technical term?

[Benjamin Lukoff]

Yes, this has been a common term in the music world for years.

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Michael H Covarrubias wrote:

> 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>:
> >
> > 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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