Why do some songs fade out when they end? The brass band in the gazebo in the public park never faded out their songs.

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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fade_(audio_engineering)" rel="nofollow">Fade (audio engineering)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://slate.com/culture/2014/09/the-fade-out-in-pop-music-why-dont-modern-pop-songs-end-by-slowly-reducing-in-volume.html" rel="nofollow">A Little Bit Softer Now, a Little Bit Softer Now… The sad, gradual decline of the fade-out in popular music.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjFeDk6Kr3U" rel="nofollow">Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 45, &quot;Farewell&quot; - Finale</a></li>
<li><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/arvo-p%C3%A4rt-tabula-rasa/1452669078" rel="nofollow">Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa</a></li>
<li><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/steve-reich-tehillim-the-desert-music/411958293" rel="nofollow">Steve Reich: Tehillim</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wpr.org/what-ever-happened-pop-song-fade-out" rel="nofollow">What Ever Happened To The Pop Song Fade-Out?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.thenexttrack.com/49" rel="nofollow">Episode #48 – Musician Dave Harrington of DARKSIDE and the Dave Harrington Group on Music Between Genres</a></li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/details/TapersChoice" rel="nofollow">Taper&#39;s Choice on archive.org</a></li>
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