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What is a classical overture?
See the link below for information on the various styles of overture. "Overture" means "Opening"
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What is the 1812 Overture?
The 1812 Overture is a symphonic work by Tchaikovsky, written in 1880, commemorating the Russian victory over the French at the Battle of Borodino.
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What is the purpose of an overture?
The purpose of the overture is to be an introduction for a longer musical piece. It sets the mood for the rest of the music in the first act.
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What comes after the overture?
An overture is an instrumental introduction to a piece of musical composition. What usually follows an overture is an opera or oratorio.
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What was overture about?
An overture is a fairly short piece of music used to introduce an opera. Overtures have also been written to be played as part of concerts.
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What is a Musical Overture?
An overture is a work that introduces a larger work, usually an opera. In the Baroque period composers such as JS Bach wrote overtures for their suites. In the Classical perio…d, overtures were played before the rise of the curtain in an opera. More recently, overtures have been performed as standalone pieces in a concert. (MORE)
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What is the difference between concert overture and overture?
An overture is an instrumental work for orchestra which was originally always composed as the introduction or prelude to an opera, ballet, or stage play. Well-known examples a…bound by Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi, and Wagner, which are often played in the concert hall independent of the larger works to which they refer. The "concert overture" is likewise a single-movement symphonic piece, which usually has some programmatic or extra-musical point of reference, but does not belong to an opera or other larger work. Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" and Brahms' "Tragic Overture" are examples which may be vaguely pictorial or loosely conceptual, respectively. Such woks are closely related to the "symphonic poem", which purports to depict a story, scene, or idea in music, but are typically too elaborately wrought to be classed as concert overtures, as in the works by Lizst and especially Richard Strauss. Sibelius perhaps arrived at a happy medium. There is also a less frequently encountered category of concert overture that does not invoke any descriptive title at all, such as Bruckner's Overture in g-minor. Such works may impress one as being the first movement of an incomplete symphony. A further use of the term is the baroque French "ouverture", which did originally precede stage productions, but acquired independed concert-music status as the form was elaborated into a large multi-tempo introduction - the "ouverture" proper - followed by a suite of assorted dance movements. The entire composition would be called a suite or an ouverture depending on local usage, the German Telemann prefering the French nomenclature, while Bach had his "English" and "French" suites for keyboard, as well as a "Partita" (the Italian equivalent) specifically titled "Ouverture in the French Style", and which stands apart from the set of six partitas proper. (MORE)
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What are sexual overtures?
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Where was the 1812 overture?
The 1812 overture was written in 1880, in Russia, to commemorate the Battle of Borodino.
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What is the 1812 overture about?
It's about the Battle of Borodino, which was Russia's victory over Napoleon. The piece is NOT about the British-American War of 1812.