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The overture, which is not Indian, is full of good things, withal too lengthy in the free fantasia.— Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
The piper's business was this overture, and presently, when it was completed, he would march in, as grand as you like, and pipe us the first reel, in which Marget, I had fondly thought, was to be my partner.— The Black Colonel
"And the orchestra plays an overture, and then the curtain goes up.— When Patty Went to College
The terms in which this overture was made Elizabeth affected not to understand; Leicester explained their meaning to be, that the king of Scots should be put in his mother's place.— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
Among her other works are a concert overture, a string quartette, violin and 'cello sonatas, some five-voiced madrigals, with various piano pieces and songs Rosalind Frances Ellicott has won a place of honour among women composers.— Woman's Work in Music

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