They are distinguishable from Italian overtures in that they were written to stand on their own in concert performances, rather than to introduce a stage work, although a piece originally written as an overture was sometimes later used as a symphony, and vice versa.

The " Italian " style of symphony, often used as overture and entr ' acte in opera houses, became a standard three-movement form: a fast movement, a slow movement, and another fast movement.

When Ruddigore was revived after some thirty-four years this jumble was found unsuitable ... and a new overture ( which has been used ever since ) was written by Geoffrey Toye.

The overture has been lost ; the scherzo was later absorbed into the Roma symphony, and the funeral march music was adapted and used in Les pêcheurs de perles.

Ruggero Leoncavallo used leitmotifs in his opera Pagliacci ( 1892 ), using melodies from the opera's arias in the overture, intermezzo and the overall orchestral accompaniment.

The French overture is a musical form widely used in the Baroque period.

Busy with last-minute cuts and changes the day before the show opened, Sullivan had no time to write an overture and used the " Graceful Dance " music from his incidental music to Henry VIII, together with a few measures of music from " Oh Marvellous Illusion ", as an overture.

In the early 18th century such type of overture would usually be called sinfonia, later, to avoid confusion with other types of sinfonia / symphony, the term Italian overture was used more frequently.

The duo spoofed the commercials " we love to hate " with their own versions: " Crazar TVs " spoofed the " Quasar " TV brand with the high-pitched overture ; " Oil of Oyvay " spoofed the de-aging Oil of Olay ; " Macedonian Formula " spoofed Grecian Formula, and questioned why a man would say he used it and thus reveal he has grey hair ; " Russian Express " spoofed American Express, with a muscular KGB agent saying " Don't leave home!

Several portions of the overture were used prominently in the films A Clockwork Orange and The Eagle Shooting Heroes ; in addition, Dmitri Shostakovich quotes the main theme of the finale in the first movement of his 15th symphony.

Poet and Peasant appears in the Fleischer Studios 1935 Popeye cartoon The Spinach Overture ; the overture to Light Cavalry is used in Disney's 1942 Mickey Mouse cartoon Symphony Hour.

The banjo is only used on the overture and the electric bass is only used for " The Telephone Hour " and the How To Kill a Man ballet.

The music from The Marriage of Figaro is used as a cinematic narrative in the film when the viewers are introduced to the daily routine of protagonist Louis Winthorpe's privileged life with the opera's overture playing in the background.

In modern performances, Mozart's Symphony No. 32, K. 318, which was composed around the same time as Zaide and later used as an overture to Francesco Bianchi's La villanella rapita ( 1784 ), is often given as an overture to Zaide.

The composer Edward Elgar used the title " Cockaigne " for his concert overture and suite evoking the people of London, Cockaigne ( In London Town ) ( 1901 ).

By the time this type of overture was adapted by German composers like Bach and Handel from the early 18th century on, it could be as well the preluding movement of a ( dance ) suite, in which case overture was sometimes used as a synonym for the entire suite ( e. g. Bach's French Overture, BWV 831 ).

The word sinfonia would, for example, be used as the name for an overture to a stage work.

" " Mná na hÉireann ," as performed by the Chieftains, is used as a romantic overture throughout the Stanley Kubrick movie Barry Lyndon and is the basis of The Christians ' 1989 single " Words ".

Though the other pieces in the incidental music are seldom played, Beethoven's overture to Egmont has been used in various modern-day cultural output, a famous United Nations film being one of them.

The overture is widely recorded and performed today, known for its distinct opening of slow, quiet pizzicato basses, leading to a sudden loud burst of sound from the full orchestra.

He is best known today for the ballet La fille mal gardée and the overture to the opera Zampa.

In his last surviving letter from 14 October 1791, Mozart tells his wife that he collected Salieri and Caterina Cavalieri in his carriage and drove them both to the opera ; about Salieri's attendance at his opera The Magic Flute, speaking enthusiastically: " He heard and saw with all his attention, and from the overture to the last choir there was not a piece that didn't elicit a ' Bravo!

Opera or other vocal music was the feature of most musical events, with concertos and " symphonies " ( arising from the overture ) serving as instrumental interludes and introductions for operas and church services.

At the General Assembly of 2004 an overture to consider adoption of the Belhar Confession was adopted.

At the age of nine he was composing his first opera, The Giant, as well as an overture and various other pieces.

The overture was publicly performed in Leipzig on 2 November 1862, conducted by the composer.

Musicologists believe that, true to form, the music for Il Barbiere di Siviglia was composed in just under three weeks, although some of the themes in the famous overture were actually borrowed from two earlier Rossini operas, Aureliano in Palmira and Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra.

Reports about the last-minute completion of the overture conflict ; some say it was completed the day before the premiere, some on the very day.

After Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution, Carnival's religious overture was suppressed.

The overture was frequently followed by a series of dance tunes before the curtain rose, and would often return following the Prologue to introduce the action proper.

In 1867, his overture Marmion was premiered by the Philharmonic Society.

Sullivan's first attempt at opera, The Sapphire Necklace ( 1863 – 64 ) to a libretto by Henry F. Chorley, was not produced and is now lost, except for the overture and two songs from the work, which were separately published.

The opera was cut and heavily revised, including a new overture and a new second-act finale.

As was to be his usual practice in his later operas, Sullivan left the overture for the last moment, sketching it out and entrusting it to the company's music director, in this case Alfred Cellier, to complete.

The overture was rejected, and it caused a lot of embarrassment in the relations with the French Directoire.

He also arranged the French national anthem La Marseillaise and composed an overture to Shakespeare's The Tempest, which was the first of his pieces to play at the Paris Opéra, but an hour before the performance began, quite ironically, a sudden storm created the worst rain in Paris for 50 years, meaning the performance was almost deserted.

When the Dutch arrived in 1624 at Tayouan ( Anping ) Harbor, Siraya-speaking representatives from nearby Saccam village soon appeared at the Dutch stockade to barter and trade ; an overture which was readily welcomed by the Dutch.

Though Clementi noted in subsequent publications of his sonata that it had been written ten years before Mozart's opera — presumably to make clear who was borrowing from whom — Clementi retained an admiration for Mozart, as reflected in the large number of transcriptions he made of Mozart's music, among which is a piano solo version of the " Zauberflöte " overture.

At the persuasion of Count Metternich, a marriage between Napoleon and Marie Louise was suggested by Emperor Francis to the Count of Narbonne but no official overture was made by the Austrians.

In this overture he shows how folk songs could be given symphonic dimensions while paying particular attention to the element of protyazhnaya or melismatically elaborated lyric song.

It took the form to new heights using the London Festival Orchestra, a loose affiliation of Decca's classical musicians given a fictitious name adding the term " London " to sound impressive, to provide an orchestral linking framework to the Moodies already written and performed songs, plus overture & conclusion sections on the album including backing up Graeme Edge's opening & closing poems recited by Pinder.

The programmes given by the orchestra in John North ’ s day were typical of the period with a multiplicity of items ; the orchestra played nothing more substantial than an overture, and vocal and instrumental solos predominated.

When published, Handel wished to present the work as an overture, but the Crown had it given the title " Music for the Royal Fireworks " as propaganda in favour of an otherwise unpopular Treaty and monarch.

It wasn't until 2007 that it was given a theatrical showing again when, on September 26 and 27, the Ziegfeld Theatre in midtown-Manhattan presented it in its entirety, complete with overture and intermission and exit music, followed by a discussion with Preminger biographer Foster Hirsch.