Sentence examples for an overture in the from inspiring English sources

It opened with an overture in the French style; hence, suites of this type were often called ouvertures.

Mendelssohn's teenage work, a self-conscious homage to Bach, opens with an overture in the French style followed by a fast fugal movement that impresses more with its technical facility than any expressive depth.

In 1869 Tchaikovsky completed Romeo and Juliet, an overture in which he subtly adapted sonata form to mirror the dramatic structure of Shakespeare's play.

Westlake had first made an overture in September.

"Their anthem is six minutes, 50 seconds long and it has about six different tunes inside, it's like an entire overture in the Verdi style!" he laughs.

They begin with a piano overture in the dark.

The first is given a 15-page overture in the novel, and, in addition to solid foundational character work, it reminds you that this, again, is not a story about unforgiving Henry, not one about the temptress Anne Boleyn, but about the spectacular rise and fall of our man Thomas.

In a national study released in June, 20percentt of teenagers surveyed by the Crimes Against Children Research Center in New Hampshire said they had received an unwanted online sexual overture in the past year.

That mix proved ideal in a rarity, Elgar's concert overture "In the South (Alassio)," composed in 1904, a work the Philharmonic had not played in 22 years.

Bizet's first orchestral piece was an overture written in 1855 in the manner of Rossini's Guillaume Tell.

He had prefaced it with Elgar, a sweeping, surging account of the overture In the South, full of big, bold effects that worked well in the cathedral acoustic.