overture

How To Use overture In A Sentence

• She will probably behave brilliantly if you make the generous overture of inviting her in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
• Opera is music, drama, literature, dance, theater and art as a comprehensive integration of art, usually by the Aria, Recitative, ensemble, chorus, Overture, Intermezzo , dances and other components.
• All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
• And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
• Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or perhaps Rossini overtures, or perhaps similarly obsessive passages in Chopin or Schumann. Categorical denials
• At a running time of around four minutes, the overture is segmented into four themes.
• They give a fine account of the Overture in C minor which has some delightful work for bassoon.
• The most cherishable of Jay's recordings are two-disc sets which permit inclusion of virtually every bit of the show's score, as well as snippets of dialogue, overtures, entr'actes, incidental music, and underscoring.
• Villa Kennan, with a pang of disappointment at such rebuff, forwent her overtures for the moment, and listened to what tale Jacob Henderson could tell of his dog. CHAPTER XXXIV
• It blasts away for openers - not for the first time - with the overture from Rossini's otherwise neglected opera The Thieving Magpie.