Timeline for Is there a word for the talking an artist does between songs?
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| Jun 24, 2023 at 3:24 | vote | accept | jlund3 | ||
| Jun 23, 2023 at 2:57 | answer | added | linguisticturn | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 21, 2023 at 11:22 | comment | added | Stuart F | There are various types of speech: introducing a song, or talking about a song just sung; advertising messages ("I'm playing all week!"); thanks and acknowledgements; filling in while someone tunes; speech that's an integral part of the show (e.g. if they do a mix of storytelling and singing); spoken intros to sung songs (Leader of the Pack, Never Ever...); taking questions; handling hecklers; other back-and-forth with the audience. If you want a word to cover all these, it's probably just speech. | |
| Jun 21, 2023 at 1:40 | history | edited | Sven Yargs |
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| Mar 6, 2022 at 20:28 | answer | added | hackerb9 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 1:05 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 17:33 | comment | added | batpigandme | On radio they call this vamping | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 6:45 | answer | added | azelma | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 4:27 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Susan so it was, I must have read it in the OP's question but reading the answers posted so far nobody has really offered a better alternative. | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 1:29 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @Mari-LouA - I would, but it was the OP's own answer. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 23:01 | answer | added | Senex Ægypti Parvi | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 22:46 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Susan you should answer the question. Patter is a very good candidate. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 21:57 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'd tend to call it ad-libbing. Sometimes the artist is actually trotting out much the same stuff night after night on tour, but it's rarely that scripted, and it usually comes across as "unrehearsed" if you're in the audience and only likely to hear it once. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 21:20 | answer | added | user66256 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 21:18 | comment | added | Doc | Interlude was the first word to come to mind, though it does typically imply music in between two larger pieces. This isn't always the case though. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 21:03 | comment | added | skarson | Like an interlude, but without music? | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 20:29 | comment | added | bib | @JohnBode Banter often suggests an exchange. You could also include badinage in that group. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 19:52 | answer | added | Mark R | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 19:47 | comment | added | John Bode | I've also heard "banter", although I don't know if that's as good a fit. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 19:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/435861044628824064 | ||
| Feb 18, 2014 at 19:23 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | patter came to mind immediately. Patter is used by magicians to distract the audience from focusing on the mechanism of the trick; the better your patter, the more you can get away with. Patter can also be used to entertain while the artist sets up for the next song (while changing the tuning of his guitar, for example, or letting the band discuss something in the background.) Patter can be personal or informative, but still be patter. Likewise he may be setting up his next song. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 19:15 | history | asked | jlund3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |