A piece of music in the style of an overture but intended for independent performance.
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The first performance of a violin concerto is a much-anticipated event - probably because so few are composed compared to other orchestral works such as concert overtures, suites and symphonies.
But in his last two decades he began writing successful film scores, operas, symphonies and a series of concert overtures illustrating formative events from American history.
The concert overture I Høst, which followed two years later, was not much more successful.
Following Mitchell's announcement is an excerpt from a familiar and appropriate work: Elgar's concert overture, ‘Cockaigne (In London Town) ‘, op. 40, although it crashes in rather abruptly.’
In a symphonic poem or a concert overture with a title or a programme, it is the latter that specifies the locus.
Definition of concert overture in US English:
concert overture
noun
A piece of music in the style of an overture but intended for independent performance.
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Example sentencesExamples
The first performance of a violin concerto is a much-anticipated event - probably because so few are composed compared to other orchestral works such as concert overtures, suites and symphonies.
Following Mitchell's announcement is an excerpt from a familiar and appropriate work: Elgar's concert overture, ‘Cockaigne (In London Town) ‘, op. 40, although it crashes in rather abruptly.’
In a symphonic poem or a concert overture with a title or a programme, it is the latter that specifies the locus.
But in his last two decades he began writing successful film scores, operas, symphonies and a series of concert overtures illustrating formative events from American history.
The concert overture I Høst, which followed two years later, was not much more successful.