Another word for overture | Synonyms for overture

Another word for overture

overture Synonyms

overture

n.

Preliminary negotiations; sometimes plural
approach, advance, tender, offer; see suggestion 1.
A musical introduction
prelude, prologue, Vorspiel (German), voluntary, proem, preface; see also introduction 1.

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Another word for overture

noun

A short section of preliminary remarks:
foreword, induction, introduction, lead-in, preamble, preface, prelude, prolegomenon, prologue. See start, words
A preliminary action intended to elicit a favorable response:
advance (used in plural), approach. See approach

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It is an overture for peace.
The date of this famous letter was 1767, but after Alceste Gluck was still able to use material from earlier work; and the overture to Armide is adapted from that of Telemacco, written in the year of Bach's death (1750).
Produced at Paris in 1828, it rapidly became a European favourite, and its overture, songs and choruses were everywhere heard.
But, brilliant as was this overture, it is the second stage of the battle that gives it its epic interest.
In 1697 the Barrier Act was passed, which provides that any act which is to be binding on the church is to come before the assembly as an overture and to be transmitted to presbyteries for their approval.

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