0 a piece of music played as an introduction to an opera etc. -- ouverture, forspill
It is rather like a symmetrical two-act music drama with overture, an intermezzo or entr'acte, and postlude.
For example, it may be of little consequence that the key of the central finale is 'remote' from that of the overture and the ending.
Large-scale sections include two substantial overtures, two finales and one introdu^ione.
It would thus be most imprudent to trust to any overtures, let alone any agreement made with revolutionaries.
Goehring's argument culminates in a compelling analysis of the overture.
Overture, fashionable rubbish with the last bit coining first.
Overture : it's not what you do but the way that you do it.
Despite a throwaway ending that does not really come off, as a festive concert overture this is, in modern political parlance, thoroughly 'fit for purpose'.
