overture

• 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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