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o·ver·ture O0197100 (ō′vər-cho͝or′)n.1. Music a. An instrumental composition intended especially as an introduction to an extended work, such as an opera or oratorio.b. A similar orchestral work intended for independent concert performance.2. An introductory section or part, as of a poem; a prelude.3. An act, offer, or proposal that indicates readiness to undertake a course of action or open a relationship.tr.v. o·ver·tured, o·ver·tur·ing, o·ver·tures 1. To present as an introduction or proposal.2. To present or make an offer or proposal to.
[Middle English, opening, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *ōpertūra, alteration (influenced by Latin cōperīre, to cover) of Latin apertūra, from apertus, past participle of aperīre, to open; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]overture (ˈəʊvəˌtjʊə) n1. (Classical Music) music a. a piece of orchestral music containing contrasting sections that is played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio, often containing the main musical themes of the workb. a similar piece preceding the performance of a playc. Also called: concert overture a one-movement orchestral piece, usually having a descriptive or evocative titled. a short piece in three movements (French overture or Italian overture) common in the 17th and 18th centuries2. (often plural) a proposal, act, or gesture initiating a relationship, negotiation, etc3. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) something that introduces what followsvb (tr) 4. to make or present an overture to5. to introduce with an overture[C14: via Old French, from Late Latin apertūra opening, from Latin aperīre to open; see overt]o•ver•ture (ˈoʊ vər tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər)
n., v. -tured, -tur•ing. n. 1. an initiating move in negotiating an agreement or action; proposal; offer. 2. a. an orchestral composition introducing a musical work, as an opera. b. an independent piece of similar character. 3. an introductory part; prelude; prologue. v.t. 4. to submit as an overture or proposal. 5. to make an overture or proposal to. [1300–50; Middle English < Old French] overture
Past participle: overtured
Gerund: overturing
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| I overture | | you overture | | he/she/it overtures | | we overture | | you overture | | they overture |
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| I overtured | | you overtured | | he/she/it overtured | | we overtured | | you overtured | | they overtured |
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| I am overturing | | you are overturing | | he/she/it is overturing | | we are overturing | | you are overturing | | they are overturing |
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| I have overtured | | you have overtured | | he/she/it has overtured | | we have overtured | | you have overtured | | they have overtured |
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| I was overturing | | you were overturing | | he/she/it was overturing | | we were overturing | | you were overturing | | they were overturing |
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| I had overtured | | you had overtured | | he/she/it had overtured | | we had overtured | | you had overtured | | they had overtured |
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| I will overture | | you will overture | | he/she/it will overture | | we will overture | | you will overture | | they will overture |
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| I will have overtured | | you will have overtured | | he/she/it will have overtured | | we will have overtured | | you will have overtured | | they will have overtured |
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| I will be overturing | | you will be overturing | | he/she/it will be overturing | | we will be overturing | | you will be overturing | | they will be overturing |
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| I have been overturing | | you have been overturing | | he/she/it has been overturing | | we have been overturing | | you have been overturing | | they have been overturing |
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| I will have been overturing | | you will have been overturing | | he/she/it will have been overturing | | we will have been overturing | | you will have been overturing | | they will have been overturing |
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| I had been overturing | | you had been overturing | | he/she/it had been overturing | | we had been overturing | | you had been overturing | | they had been overturing |
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| I would overture | | you would overture | | he/she/it would overture | | we would overture | | you would overture | | they would overture |
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| I would have overtured | | you would have overtured | | he/she/it would have overtured | | we would have overtured | | you would have overtured | | they would have overtured |
overtureAn orchestral introduction to an opera or ballet, sometimes to a symphony, or an independent and usually programmatic concert work.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  overture - orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratoriomusic - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner | | 2. | overture - something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner"prelude, preliminaryinception, origination, origin - an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | | 3. |  overture - a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances"feeler, advance, approachproffer, proposition, suggestion - a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse" |
overturenoun1. (Music) prelude, opening, introduction, introductory movement the William Tell Overture
prelude finale, coda2. (usually plural) approach, offer, advance, proposal, appeal, invitation, tender, proposition, opening move, conciliatory move He had begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship.
approach withdrawal, rejectionoverturenoun1. A short section of preliminary remarks:foreword, induction, introduction, lead-in, preamble, preface, prelude, prolegomenon, prologue.2. A preliminary action intended to elicit a favorable response:advance (used in plural), approach.Translationsoverture (ˈəuvətjuə) noun a piece of music played as an introduction to an opera etc. 前奏曲 前奏曲
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make overturesTo express a willingness, openness, or eagerness to pursue something, such as a relationship or an intended course of action. Being new to the area, I made friendly overtures to some of the parents in the toddler playgroup in the hopes of making some new friends. The senator made overtures about changing the tax code during his election campaign, but since being elected he hasn't done a single thing about it.See also: make, overturemake overtures about doing somethingto give hints about something; to present or suggest ideas. The company made overtures about hiring me. Tom is making overtures about inviting us to his country home next month.See also: make, overturemake ˈovertures (to somebody) try to make friends, start a business relationship, have discussions, etc. with somebody: On my first day at work everyone made friendly overtures. ♢ If we want to stay in business I think we ought to start making overtures to the bank manager!See also: make, overtureoverture
overture, instrumental musical composition written as an introduction to an opera, ballet, oratorio, musical, or play. The earliest Italian opera overtures were simply pieces of orchestral music and were called sinfonie. Jean Baptiste Lully standardized the French overture, using an opening section in pompous chordal style and dotted rhythms followed by a fugal section. This type of overture was much imitated, an example being the overture to Handel's Messiah. In some of the 17th-century Neapolitan operas, to some extent in Jean Philippe Rameau's operas and most notably in Gluck's, the overture began to foreshadow what was to come in the work's tunes. In many 19th-century operas and 20th-century musicals the overture is simply a potpourri of the work's tunes. The concert overture, a composition in one movement that may be in any of a variety of styles, arose in the 19th cent.; the overtures of Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven are outstanding.Overture an orchestral work that precedes an opera, oratorio, ballet, dramatic performance, or motion picture; an independent orchestral composition in sonata form. An opera overture prepares the listener for the forthcoming action. An early example of the overture is the prelude to Monteverdi’s opera La favola d’Orfeo (1607). By the late 17th century, two major types of overtures had developed: the French, consisting of a slow introduction, a fast polyphonic section, and a slow conclusion (J.-B. Lully); and the Italian (sinfoniá), consisting of a fast, a slow, and a fast movement (A. Scarlatti). Both types were important in the development of the sonata and the symphony. The French overture became very popular in Germany, where it was placed at the beginning of a suite, or Partiia, as in the first movement of J. S. Bach’s orchestral suites and of his Partiia in D major. Opera overtures initially had no relevance to the themes of the character of the opera itself; it was only in the later 18th century that composers came to treat the overture as a symphonic prologue designed to reveal the content of an opera. In this regard, C. W. Gluck stated that the overture should “apprise the spectator of the nature of the action that is to be represented and should form, so to speak, its argument.” The overture may be themati-cally linked to the opera, as in Glinka’s Ivan Susanin and Ruslan and Liudmila, or it may generally express the opera’s character, as in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro or Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. There are several types of opera overtures. The classical overture in sonata form, sometimes having a slow introduction, was established in the second half of the 18th century; examples are the overtures to Gluck’s Alceste, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Borodin’s Prince Igor, and Smetana’s The Bartered Bride. The prelude and introduction are brief pieces, not in sonata form, that sketch out the main conflict or idea of an opera, as in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Bizet’s Carmen, and Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, or that lead directly into the first act, as in R. Wagner’s symphonic preludes. The overture in the form of a series of successive musical numbers, frequently linked by means of contrasts or an accelerating tempo, may be found in operas by G. Rossini and L. Aubert and in many operettas. The most famous overtures to dramatic works are Beethoven’s overtures to Goethe’s Egmont and Collin’s Coriolan, Balakirev’s overture to King Lear, and Mendelssohn’s overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In the 19th century the concert overture—an independent orchestral piece, usually programmatic—occupied a prominent place in symphonic music. Examples include Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave (The Hebrides) and Melusine, Berlioz’ The Roman Carnival, and Dvorak’s My Home. In addition to overtures to dramatic works—Schumann’s Manfred and Tchaikovsky’s fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet—and overtures inspired by nature—Grieg’s In Autumn—the occasional overture also became popular. Examples of this type include Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, Glazunov’s Cortege solennel, Gliére’s Solemn Overture for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Miaskovskii’s overtures, Shostakovich’s Festival Overture, and A. I. Khachaturian’s Greetings Overture. M. I. Glinka composed classical overtures on folk themes, and the tradition of his overtures Summer Night in Madrid and Jota aragonesa was carried on by M. A. Balakirev in his Overture on Three Russian Themes, S. I. Taneev in his Overture on a Russian Theme (On Tatar Captivity), and many Soviet composers. The overture to dramatic works and the concert overture were direct precursors of the symphonic poem. REFERENCESAsaf ev, B. “O frantsuzskoi klassicheskoi uvertiure i, v osobennosti, ob uvertiurakh Kerubini.” In his book Glinka, 2nd ed. Moscow-Leningrad, 1950.
Asafev, B. “Uvertiura ’Rustan i Liudmila’ Glinki.” In Izbrannye trudy, vol. 1. Moscow, 1952.
Druskin, M. Voprosy muzykal’noi dramaturgii opery. Leningrad, 1952. Pages 290–95.
Popova, T. Uvertiura, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1960.
Riemann, H. Die französische Ouvertüre zu Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts. Leipzig, 1899.
Botstiber, H. Geschichte der Ouvertüre und der freien Orchesterformen. Leipzig, 1913.I. E. MANUKIAN overture1. Musica. a piece of orchestral music containing contrasting sections that is played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio, often containing the main musical themes of the work b. a similar piece preceding the performance of a play c. a one-movement orchestral piece, usually having a descriptive or evocative title d. a short piece in three movements (French overture or Italian overture) common in the 17th and 18th centuries 2. something that introduces what follows OvertureA pioneer in keyword advertising on the Web. Founded in 1997 as GoTo.com, Pasadena, California-based Overture Services was one of the first Web search engines that included relevant ads on the results page based on the words being searched. If the user clicked an ad, the advertiser was charged the amount it bid for placement. The amount was also displayed, allowing competitors to bid more and move higher on the results page.
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Synonyms for overturenoun preludeSynonyms- prelude
- opening
- introduction
- introductory movement
Antonymsnoun approachSynonyms- approach
- offer
- advance
- proposal
- appeal
- invitation
- tender
- proposition
- opening move
- conciliatory move
AntonymsSynonyms for overturenoun a short section of preliminary remarksSynonyms- foreword
- induction
- introduction
- lead-in
- preamble
- preface
- prelude
- prolegomenon
- prologue
noun a preliminary action intended to elicit a favorable responseSynonymsSynonyms for overturenoun orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorioRelated Wordsnoun something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what followsSynonymsRelated Words- inception
- origination
- origin
noun a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of othersSynonymsRelated Words- proffer
- proposition
- suggestion
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