The concept that concerns us in this review is widely used in our language and it is also frequently used in different contexts with different references.
In what would be its most general and wide use, we find that, introduction is the action and the result of introducing something in a place or of a person introducing himself in something.
Also, the term is used to refer to that preparation that is carried out with the mission of achieving a certain end, such as achieving the persuasion of a public about a topic. It is common for, for example, a person who is going to speak about a topic of interest and who is the main one in a meeting or colloquium, makes an introduction related to it before developing the question.
The musical introduction
Secondly, In the field of music, it is called an introduction to the initial part, usually brief, of an instrumental type work or of a song. It is also popularly referred to as an intro
It is worth mentioning that in songs with lyrics the introduction is formed especially by music and musical chords that just serve as an introduction before the interpreter begins to vocalize the song in question.
On the other hand, in other songs sung, the intro is not a musical intro as it usually appears in most songs of this type, but rather the song begins with the singer's voice and has a silence as a background; It is called a cappella intro.
The introduction in a literary work
And finally, among what would be the most widespread use that the word has of all is the one given to instances of the field of literature, whether in books, articles, essays, among others, and that corresponds to the first section of these in which the purposes and objectives that will appear in what follows are indicated, that is, in the development of the work and that of course will be more extensive and detailed in the body. So, it basically constitutes the initial section of any written work and it will have the mission of contextualizing the text in question that will be presented in the following sections as its body and conclusions.
The introduction is followed by the body or development of the topic and the conclusions.
Almost always, in the introduction, the author of the text describes the scope of his work, summarizes it, can explain some antecedents that led to his writing, among other issues, inasmuch as the effect that an introduction should always cause on the person who wrote it. reads, is that when reading it he can get a complete idea about what he will read later.
It should be noted that in the case of works for technical purposes, the introduction usually includes one or more subsections, such is the case of: summary, preface and acknowledgments. On the other hand, the introduction may consist of one more chapter of the work that is divided into the aforementioned sections.
Meanwhile if the book is divided into chapters with numbers it is agreed that the introduction will not receive a number but will simply be designated as an introduction.
