Talk:Encore

Rhythmic clapping as request for an encore?
In Israel, applause following the last number on a concert program will often change to a steady, rhythmic clapping of hands to indicate the audience's request for an encore. I hadn't noted this behavior among U.S. audiences (though admittedly have no experience there since the early 1980s). Is the practice common elsewhere? -- Deborahjay 05:58, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * In France we do the same: rhythmic clapping of hands for a bis. "Encore!" or "une autre! [sc. chanson]", frequently "chanted" by the audience rhythmically with hand clapping, are typical of so called concerts de variétés, which actually means pop music or middle of the road music. I cannot imagine that one could shout une autre! (= yet another song!) in a concert (recital, opera, etc.) of art music, or even encore! (which, by the way, has slight sexual connotations). I have never listen such a thing and think it would be perceived like an incongruity. In the past, bis! was shouted ("Le père enchanté frappe des mains en criant : bis, bis" wrote Rousseau in L'Emile, but I think this custom is now bygone. At last, in French, une autre is never used as a noun like an encore in English: we only say un bis or un rappel. And a bis means that the artist plays/sings something more (or again) while un rappel is only the action of "recalling" the artist on stage whether he plays/sings something or not. A bis is generally given by the artist after several rappels. Petrus Iustinus (talk) 15:09, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Bis/Encore
The French themselves, however, use the word bis in the same circumstances.) " I'm french and I never heard "bis" in this circumstance. French people always yell "encore" at the end of a concert!
 * Yeah, let's deal with this. Someone needs to verify this, and we can make the appropriate changes. Gautam Discuss 02:42, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

From Le Petit Robert (2014), sv 'bis'(2) 1.: Une seconde fois; cris par lequel on demande la répétition de ce que l'on vient de voir ou d'entendre. (A second time; a call by which one requests the repetition of what has just been seen or heard.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:14C6:C089:F96D:D90F:F575:DC78 (talk) 03:29, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

opera encore
There is a slightly different meaning of "encore" in opera: it means repeating a just-performed number in response to enthusiastic applause. Encores are considered in poor taste nowadays because they break the stage illusion. At the Metropolitan Opera, I believe the policy is to prohibit all encores with the exception of Verdi's chorus VA, PENSIERO, which has historical importance. CharlesTheBold (talk) 12:25, 21 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The article The Marriage of Figaro on the opera by Mozart says that at the first performance 1 May 1786, 5 numbers were encored, and then on 8 May, 7 numbers. I think this article on Encores should mention the possibility of encoring numbers, even if it is rare nowadays. Marlindale (talk) 01:31, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The article as of now has a section on bans of encores, as for vocal solos, conflicting with the usage for encores as being only at the end of concerts. Marlindale (talk) 03:14, 15 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Today I made a section of the article about encores of opera arias.Marlindale (talk) 21:28, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Morphine
I just added the piece about Morphine. I witnessed this in a Detroit show circa 1996. It was pretty funny, because it was clear that Sandman was mocking the institution of the obligatory rock encore.

Citations needed where?
Mainly, it seems, in the latter part of the article, on popular music. Marlindale (talk) 21:25, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 6 June 2016

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– I would think that the concept of an encore would be the primary topic per long-term significance and the fact that most prominent meanings of "encore" on the DAB page derive from it. Nohomersryan (talk) 17:32, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Encore (concert) → Encore
 * Encore → Encore (disambiguation)

—I'm not opposed to these changes. Until recently, I hadn't known of possible meanings such as individual named songs or albums. What do others think? Marlindale (talk) 18:20, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Support. Agree it's easily the primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:37, 8 June 2016 (UTC)


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More citations?
It seems to me that the material on classical music may have a reasonable number of citations, but the material on popular music may not. Marlindale (talk) 00:12, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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