concert overture

British  

noun

1. See overture

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concert overture

Here he offers Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony along with the overture to Victor Hugo’s play “Ruy Blas” and the concert overture “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.”

From New York Times ● May 6, 2015

The curtain raiser, Elgar's concert overture "In the South," was energized in such a way as to celebrate its roast-beefy opulence of orchestration.

From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 21, 2011

Margaret Williams, a Baltimore student who was born in Tennessee, produced a concert overture at one of the Peabody Symphony Concerts, and has also composed the words and music for a five-act opera, entitled "Columbus."

From Woman's Work in Music by Elson, Arthur

A trio, a violin sonata, and a piano quintette, a suite for strings, and a concert overture for orchestra complete the list of his writings.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

Among her other works are a concert overture, a string quartette, violin and 'cello sonatas, some five-voiced madrigals, with various piano pieces and songs.

From Woman's Work in Music by Elson, Arthur