Overture (from French ouverture, lit. "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. During the early...
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The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, is a concert overture in E♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr...
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Look up overture in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An overture is the instrumental introduction to a dramatic, choral or, occasionally, instrumental...
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The Boom Overture is a proposed supersonic airliner under development by Boom Technology. Its design will be capable of traveling Mach 1.7 (1,000 kn; 1...
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The Italian overture is a piece of orchestral music which opened several operas, oratorios and other large-scale works in the late 17th and early 18th...
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Yahoo Native (redirect from Overture Services Inc.)
service provided by Yahoo. Yahoo began offering this service after acquiring Overture Services, Inc. The current offering of Yahoo Native launched in 2014 as...
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The Coriolan Overture (German: Coriolan-Ouvertüre or Ouvertüre zu Coriolan), Op. 62, is a composition written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1807 for Heinrich...
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The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini...
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"Overture" is a song by English rock band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. The track is one of three instrumental tracks on Tommy, the other two being...
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The Overture (Thai: โหมโรง or Hom rong) is a 2004 Thai tragic-nostalgia music-drama film. A fictionalised account based on the life story of Thai palace...
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The Hebrides (/ˈhɛbrɪdiːz/; German: Die Hebriden) is a concert overture that was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830, revised in 1832, and published...
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The Tragic Overture, B. 16a (also called the Dramatic Overture; Czech: Tragická ouvertura or Dramatická ouvertura) is an orchestral composition written...
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Johann Sebastian Bach, performed on a viola by Elias Goldstein Messiah – Overture Composed by George Frideric Handel, performed by the MIT Concert Orchestra...
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Penumbra: Overture (also known as Penumbra: Overture – Episode One) is the first in a series of episodic survival horror games developed by Frictional...
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Overture! (オーバーチュア, Ōbāchua) is the 12th studio album by Japanese idol duo Wink, released by Polystar on July 1, 1994. It features the singles "Itsumademo...
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The Sandman: Overture is a six issue comic book miniseries written by Neil Gaiman with art by J.H. Williams III. It is a prequel to Gaiman's The Sandman...
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The Overture & the Underscore is the 2004 (see 2004 in music) debut album by Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko. "Essentially I wanted there to...
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Sommernachtstraum). First in 1826, near the start of his career, he wrote a concert overture (Op. 21). Later, in 1842, five years before his death, he wrote incidental...
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Overture Walker is an American politician serving as a member representing the South Carolina Senate from the 22nd district (Kershaw and Richland Counties)...
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Overture Films was an American film production and distribution company and a subsidiary of Starz (then subsidiary of Liberty Media). It was founded in...
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"10538 Overture" is the debut single by the English band the Electric Light Orchestra. It was released on 23 June 1972 as the lead single from their self-titled...
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The Overture Maps Foundation is an open data mapping collaboration, launched in mid-December 2022 under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. Its stated...
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Egmont (Beethoven) (redirect from Egmont overture)
Overture from Egmont (9:01) Problems playing this file? See media help. Egmont, Op. 84 by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music pieces for...
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Boom Technology (section Overture airliner)
Supersonic) is an American company designing a supersonic airliner named the Overture. The company is also developing a one-third-scale demonstrator: the Boom...
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The Helios Overture (in Danish: Ouverture Helios), Op. 17 (FS 32; CNW 34), is a concert overture for orchestra written in 1903 by the Danish composer...
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Overture Center for the Arts is a performing arts center and art gallery in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. The center opened on September 19, 2004...
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The Faust Overture is a concert overture by German composer Richard Wagner. Originally composed between 1839 and 1840, Wagner intended it to be the first...
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"Bayram" overture (or Overture for big symphony orchestra) is an overture written by Soltan Hajibeyov in 1956. The overture was performed for the first...
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The Festive Overture (Russian: Праздничная увертюра, romanized: Prazdnichnaya uvertyura), Op. 96 is an orchestral work composed by Dmitri Shostakovich...
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