piece of music that introduces a performance and is generally a medley of the music played during the performance; prelude, opening; introductory proposal, motion towards; introduction (as in a poem or play)
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Overture Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.
A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.
A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.
(v. t.)
To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutTo make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.
overture
\o"ver*ture\ (?), [of. overture, f. ouverture, fr. of. ovrir, f. ouvrir. see overt.]
1. an opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber. [obs.] "the cave's inmost overture."
2. disclosure; discovery; revelation. [obs.] it was he that made the overture of thy treasons to us.
3. a proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection. "the great overture of the gospel."
4. (mus.) a composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.
overture
\o"ver*ture\, v. t. to make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.
overture
n
1. orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
2. something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner" [syn: preliminary, prelude]
3. a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances" [syn: advance, approach, feeler]
An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
Noun
1. orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
(hypernym) music
2. something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner"
(synonym) preliminary, prelude
(hypernym) origin, origination, inception
3. a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances"
(synonym) advance, approach, feeler
(hypernym) suggestion, proposition, proffer
Overture Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Overture (French ouverture; German Ouvertüre, Vorspiel; Italian overtura; i.e. opening) in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn began to use the term to refer to independent, self-existing instrumental, programmatic works that presaged genres such as the symphonic poem. These were at first no doubt intended to be played at the head of a programme.
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"Once More, with Feeling" is the seventh episode of the sixth season of the fantasy television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and the only one in the series performed as a musical. It was written and directed by the show's creator, Joss Whedon, and originally aired on UPN in the United States on November 6, 2001.
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Overture Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
an extended orchestral introduction to an opera, ballet, or similar type of musical presentation
The seventeenth century opera overture, also known as sinfonia. The sinfonia was established as an introduction to the opera by A. Scarlatti. It has differences in Italian and French style. The French overture has two sections: slow-solemn chordal introduction with dotted rhythm in simple duple/quadruple time followed by a fast contrapuntal (fugal allegro) section. Rameau's overtures introduce a theme to reappear in the opera later on. The Italian overture has the fast-slow-fast structure. The overture was the forerunner of the symphony. Later an extra movement in triple time was added between the slow and the last movements (minuet - scherzo). The Italian type sinfonia provided the basis of the future orchestral symphony.
