Definição do conceito
[POR] extended play (EP) é uma gravação em disco de vinil, formato digital ou CD que é longa demais para ser considerada um single e muito curta para ser classificada como um álbum musical. | Normalmente, possui de 4 a 6 faixas, posicionando-se como um intermediário entre um single (daí o termo “extended”, indicando que o EP é um single estendido, com mais faixas) e um álbum LP (que, em geral, possui de 10 a 20 faixas). | Alguns artistas preferem chamar o EP de "miniálbum" para dar um significado maior ao seu trabalho, em vez de ser classificado apenas como mais um aditivo em sua discografia. | O EP surgiu fora do Brasil, nos anos 60, como uma compilação de músicas ou uma amostra de um álbum a ser lançado em LP. Mesmo após o surgimento do CD, em 1982, e da música digital, o conceito de EP manteve-se. | No Brasill, era comum artistas em início de carreira, sem gravadora ou sem recursos financeiros, lançarem Compactos duplos ou EPs, como forma de divulgar seu trabalho. | Em meados dos anos 2000, um formato semelhante foi lançado no país, batizado de CD Zero, mas teve pouca exploração. | Em 2012, o sucesso do EP da música "Esse Cara Sou Eu", de Roberto Carlos, que vendeu mais de 2 milhões de cópias, impulsionou a volta do formato ao mercado fonográfico nacional. | FONTE: Extended play. in: Wikipédia. Disponível em : https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_play Acesso em : 17 set. 2022
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[SPA] extended play (EP) : extended play | EP (extended play) es una sigla inglesa que traducida al español significa reproducción extendida y se utiliza como denominación para un formato de grabación musical.1? La duración de un EP es muy larga para considerarse como sencillo, y muy corta para considerarse como álbum.1? Los álbumes están divididos por tres tipos: Single (sencillo), EP («Extended Play», traducido al español como ´reproducción extendida´), y LP («long play», traducido al español como ´reproducción larga´). | Inicialmente se llamó EP al disco de vinilo de siete pulgadas de diámetro grabado a 33 revoluciones por minuto (RPM).? Esta diferencia de velocidad con respecto al sencillo, grabado a 45 RPM, le permitía tener una duración mayor (un máximo de 25 minutos, doce y medio por cada cara) frente a la duración del sencillo, cuya duración máxima no podía superar los 15 minutos.2? Cuando los vinilos se tipificaron a 33 RPM, se llamó EP a aquellos discos de siete pulgadas que tenían más de una canción por cara. | Actualmente, con la llegada del disco compacto, la distinción entre sencillo, EP y LP (álbum) es arbitraria, y está basada en factores tanto artísticos como comerciales.? Generalmente, un EP tiene una duración máxima de 20 a 25 minutos y suele ser un disco tipo mini-CD; a partir de ese tiempo ya suele hablarse de un disco de larga duración (LP). | FUENTE : Extended play in : Wikipedia. Disponible en : https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_play Acceso en : 17 set. 2022
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[ENG] extended play (EP) : extended play | An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of records other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well. | Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, "EPs—originally extended-play ´single´ releases that are shorter than traditional albums—have long been popular with punk and indie bands." In the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of maximum length and no more than four tracks (not counting alternative versions of featured songs, if present). | .../...| EPs in the digital and streaming era : Due to the increased popularity of music downloads and music streaming beginning the late 2000s, EPs have become a common marketing strategy for pop musicians wishing to remain relevant and deliver music in more consistent timeframes leading to or following full studio albums. In the late 2000s to early 2010s, reissues of studio albums with expanded track listings were common, with the new music often being released as stand-alone EPs. In October 2010, a Vanity Fair article regarding the trend noted post-album EPs as "the next step in extending albums´ shelf lives, following the "deluxe" editions that populated stores during the past few holiday seasons—add a few tracks to the back end of an album and release one of them to radio, slap on a new coat of paint, and—voila!—a stocking stuffer is born." Examples of such releases include Lady Gaga´s The Fame Monster (2009) following her debut album The Fame (2008), and Kesha´s Cannibal (2010) following her debut album Animal (2010). | .../... | DEFINITION : The first EPs were seven-inch vinyl records with more tracks than a normal single (typically five to nine of them). Although they shared size and speed with singles, they were a recognizably different format than the seven-inch single. Although they could be named after a lead track, they were generally given a different title. Examples include The Beatles´ The Beatles´ Hits EP from 1963, and The Troggs´ Troggs Tops EP from 1966, both of which collected previously released tracks.The playing time was generally between 10 and 15 minutes. They also came in cardboard picture sleeves at a time when singles were usually issued in paper company sleeves. EPs tended to be album samplers or collections of singles. EPs of all original material began to appear in the 1950s. Examples are Elvis Presley´s Love Me Tender from 1956 and "Just for You", "Peace in the Valley" and "Jailhouse Rock" from 1957, and The Kinks´ Kinksize Session from 1964. | Twelve-inch EPs were similar, but generally had between three and five tracks and a length of over 12 minutes. Like seven-inch EPs, these were given titles. EP releases were also issued in cassette and 10-inch vinyl formats. With the advent of the compact disc (CD), more music was often included on "single" releases, with four or five tracks being common, and playing times of up to 25 minutes. These extended-length singles became known as maxi singles and while commensurate in length to an EP were distinguished by being designed to feature a single song, with the remaining songs considered B-sides, whereas an EP was designed not to feature a single song, instead resembling a mini album. .../... Beginning in the 1980s, many so-called "singles" have been sold in formats with more than two tracks. Because of this, the definition of an EP is not determined only by the number of tracks or the playing time; an EP is typically seen as four (or more) tracks of equal importance, as opposed to a four-track single with an obvious A-side and three B-sides. .../... An intermediate format between EPs and full-length LPs is the mini-LP, which was a common album format in the 1980s. These generally contained 20–30 minutes of music and about seven tracks. | DOUBLE EPS : Double EPs | A double extended play is a name typically given to vinyl records or compact discs released as a set of two discs, each of which would normally qualify as an EP. The name is thus analogous to double album. As vinyl records, the most common format for the double EP, they consist of a pair of 7-inch discs recorded at 45 or 331?3 rpm, or two 12-inch discs recorded at 45rpm. The format is useful when an album´s worth of material is being pressed by a small plant geared for the production of singles rather than albums and may have novelty value which can be turned to advantage for publicity purposes. Double EPs are rare, since the amount of material recordable on a double EP could usually be more economically and sensibly recorded on a single vinyl LP. | SOURCE : extended play in: WIkipedia. Available at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_play Accessed: 17 sep. 2022
[ENG] extended play (EP) :Extended play (EP). A recorded sound disc with a 17,5 cm diameter (single), replayed at 33 1/3 rpm or 45 rpm, and giving extended playing time of up to 8 minutes on each side. | SOURCE : IASA Cataloguing Rules. Ed. by Mary MIliano, 1999. (Appendix D. Glossary) Available at : https://www.iasa-web.org/cataloguing-rules/appendix-d-glossary Accessed : 17 sep. 2022
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