Introduction (music)

The intro ( short form of English introduction, from the Latin Introductio "Introduction ") is a brief thematically related introduction to the complete contents of and for text, music, image and video works.

Use

Intros are used as a stylistic device in music, with lyrics on TV or in other occasions.

Music

General

The prototype of the intro is the Prelude in classical music. It is a two -, four - or eight-bar also initiate or Vorstrophe in jazz, pop and rock music. In the electronic dance music an intro is normally found in the original mix. The intro is the first part of the basic structure of a pop song, which usually consists of intro - verse- chorus-verse -chorus- coda ( fade out). It has the function of preparing the piece of music and to build the listener voltage to arouse interest and to contribute to recognition.

Molding

Thus, different musical possibilities. Either be shortened presented or voted not related to the topic motives thematic passages of the musical work. The intro often reveals something typical about the song. It is mostly instrumental, but there are also vocal variations. Very often incisive riffs of guitars or keyboards used (Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin May 1969 Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple, December 1971 ). A violin intro presented Roll Over Beethoven by Electric Light Orchestra ( September 1972 ); a long piano intro with Fats Domino The Fat Man leaves a distinct boogie-woogie rhythms recognize ( December 1949 ), a drum passes in the popular Queen We Will Rock You a ( September 1977). A spoken intro is heard in Scatman ( Ski -Ba- Bop -Ba -Dop - Bop ) by Scatman John ( January 1995), a 48 seconds long a cappella intro is the Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody ( August 1975 ) requires.

Intros contain shortened chord progressions or rhythms that are also present in the piece of music itself. In addition, designs can be chosen as an intro, which are no longer heard in the actual music theme (such as the French national anthem in All You Need Is Love by the Beatles, May 1967 ). In many pieces is the tension-building intro that gets louder even faster ( accelerando ) as in Wanda Jackson Santo Domingo (recorded on March 9, 1965 in Cologne) Poupée de cire or, poupée de son by France Gall ( March 1965 ).

Others

For music albums on CD or LPs (especially in Hip- Hop and R & B) with intro also referred to the first piece of music, if this is not an own song but a musical introduction. A musical transition between two tracks is often called Interlude.

Texts

For text works the text of an article divided into two parts ( intro text and main text) is. The intro text will appear as aloof part of the beginning of the article so that the reader can get an idea of the content. In the digital newspaper industry or in web offers text intros are often in collections that only intro texts contain ( engl: blog content ), embedded so as to direct the reader's attention to a larger number of articles.

Websites

The Web, it refers to a page as an intro, that will be conducted when calling a Web site. Often an animation in Adobe Flash or a special graphic presentation, such as a logo.

Digital Art

In the field of Digital Art ( demoscene ) intros are small computer programs mostly a maximum of 64 KB size that generate real-time graphical effects / animations and to play background music. These intros have been established since the time of the VC20, where they were used as a bias for the dissemination of programs and as a label or membership of a demo / cracking group.

TV

Even television shows have often recurrent, introductory sequences, which are also referred to as an intro or bias.

Computer Games

At the beginning of a short film computer or video game is often shown ( in game graphics or rendered ), which serves as a prelude and preparation for the history ereignende. This film is called Intro.

Outro / Outro

Similar to the term " Intro" has also developed the concept Outtro or outro. He referred to the opposite of the intro, so the last part of a work.