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Overture (from French ouverture, lit. "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. [1] During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which were independent, self-existing, instrumental, programmatic works that foreshadowed genres such as the symphonic poem.
A Song of War and Victory (1905) On the Sea Shore (1908, orch. 1984) Festival Overture (1911, revised 1918) Dance of Wild Irravel (1912) Four Orchestral Pieces (1912–13) Three Pieces for Small Orchestra (1913, revised 1928) Symphonic Scherzo (1917, revised 1933) Russian Suite (1919) Mediterranean (1922) Cortège (1925) Romantic Overture (1926)
A love theme is a special theme song (often in various modified forms) that accompanies romantic scenes involving the protagonists of a performance. Theme songs are among the works of incidental music that are most commonly released independently of the performance for which they were written, and occasionally become major successes in their ...
The Wasps (1909): to Aristophanes's play The Wasps, Overture and 17 items Aristophanic Suite for orchestra (1912) The Bacchae (1911): to Euripides's tragedy; The Death of Tintagiles (1913): to Maurice Maeterlinck's 1894 play [1] Incidental music to Shakespeare's plays (1913): The Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II, Henry IV Part 2, Richard III ...
Next to the actual, finalized Fidelio overture, this is the most commonly performed version, and still sometimes replaces the Fidelio overture in some productions. Egmont Overture , Op. 84 Wellington's Victory , Op. 91 is also known as the Battle Symphony and describes the battle between the French and British armies outside the Spanish town of ...
Overture to Of Thee I Sing (1931), for orchestra. The shortest Broadway overture written by Gershwin. It is also the least episodic of his overtures. Only two songs are quoted in the overture, the rest are only referenced in fragments and repeating musical cells. Also features Gershwin's only known violin cadenza.
The work is a concert overture - meaning that it is not intended as a prelude to a larger work such as an opera (as 'overture', deriving from the French for 'opening', more often implies). Instead, the piece is performed as an independent piece in a symphonic concert. The term overture here refers to the use of melody and form.
"Speak, Music!" song: voice and piano: Mrs E. Speyer, Ridghurst [40] A. C. Benson: Boosey 42: 1901: Grania and Diarmid: incidental: music for a play by George Moore and W. B. Yeats, for orchestra and contralto soloist 1. Incidental Music and Funeral March 2. Song, "There are seven that pull the thread" Henry J. Wood — Novello 42.1: 1901 ...