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overtureIn music, the opening piece of a concert or opera. It has two roles: settling the audience before the main music starts, and allowing the conductor and musicians to become acquainted with the acoustics of a concert auditorium. See also prelude. The use of an overture in opera began during the 17th century; the ‘Italian’ overture consisting of two quick movements separated by a slow one, and the ‘French’ of a quick movement between two in slower tempo. |
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| The curtain had not yet risen and the overture was being played. They chatted incessantly: about the things around them; their amusing adventure out in the water-it had again assumed its entertaining aspect; about the wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the Cheniere; about the children playing croquet under the oaks, and the Farival twins, who were now performing the overture to "The Poet and the Peasant. She was weary, not because of the past, but because the fairy theatre of life still kept its curtain down, and forced her to play over and over again the impatient overture of her dreams. |
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