Encore
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An encore is an additional performance given by performers after the planned show has ended, usually in response to extended applause from the audience. They are regarded as the most complimentary kind of applause for performers. Multiple encores are not uncommon, and they initially originated spontaneously, when audiences continued to applaud and demand additional performance from the artists after they had left the stage. However, in modern times they are rarely spontaneous and are usually a pre-planned part of the show.
Of course, the works featured in the encore are also subject to copyright protection. Therefore, if the performers do not inform the title of the work or the name of the copyright holder to the audience (even before or after the performance) even if it is an encore outside of the program, it may be a violation of the right of attribution. Some performers share information about their work to the audience before an encore performance, but often the environment of the performance venue prevents their voices from reaching the audience widely. For this reason, some performance venues display the list of encore works after the performance.
Etymology
The word encore comes from the French encore, which means ‘again, some more’; however, it is not used this way in French, but it is ancora in Italian. French speakers commonly use instead either une autre (‘another’), un rappel (‘a return, curtain call’) or the Latin bis (‘second time’) in the same circumstances. Italians use bis too.
In England, [un']altra volta (Italian for ‘another time’) was used in the early nineteenth century, but such usage had been completely supplanted by 1900.
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