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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Overtures Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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
Overtures 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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