Sentence examples for extensive overture from inspiring English sources

Though there are jaunty ragtime songs and dances in "Treemonisha," this is not a rag opera or a folk opera, but, as Joplin intended, a serious American grand opera, with an extensive overture, instrumental preludes to the second and third acts, formal arias with beguiling vocal writing, recitatives and elaborate ensembles.

An overture?

1: Tragic overture : op.

Overture (4:13) ; Fancy free.

Overture / Gioachino Rossini.

Overture : for orchestra.

Melpomene : dramatic overture / George Whitefield Chadwick.

1812 festival overture, op.

overture of the Little Ice Age (LIA).

The flying Dutchman : Overture.

That was the overture.