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Overture to Of Thee I Sing (1931), for orchestra. The shortest Broadway overture written by Gershwin. It is also the least episodic of his overtures. Only two songs are quoted in the overture, the rest are only referenced in fragments and repeating musical cells. Also features Gershwin's only known violin cadenza.
Leonore No. 3 is well known for portraying some of the major events of the plot in a condensed, purely orchestral form, most notably the distant trumpet fanfares of the finale. Next to the actual, finalized Fidelio overture, this is the most commonly performed version, and still sometimes replaces the Fidelio overture in some productions.
Overture (from French ouverture, lit. "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. [1] During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which were independent, self-existing, instrumental, programmatic works that foreshadowed genres such as the symphonic poem.
"Cor meum conturbatum" in g minor for choir and orchestra "Ecce enim veritatem" in G major for bass, three violas, double-bass and organ "Fremat tirannus" in C major, motet for soprano, choir and orchestra (1778) "Magna est virtus" - lost - "Misericordius Dominus" in E-flat major, duet for soprano, bass, violine and orchestra
Gavotte from J.S. Bach's French Suite No. 5. A suite, in Western classical music, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces. It originated in the late 14th century as a pairing of dance tunes; and grew in scope so that by the early 17th century it comprised up to five dances, sometimes with a prelude.
Bach did write several other ouverture (suites) for solo instruments, notably the Cello Suite no. 5, BWV 1011, which also exists in the autograph Lute Suite in G minor, BWV 995, the Keyboard Partita no. 4 in D, BWV 828, and the Overture in the French style, BWV 831 for keyboard.
First Suite in E-flat Major, Op. 28/1 (1909) Second Suite in F Major, Op. 28/2 (1911) Karel Husa Music for Prague (1968) Apotheosis of This Earth (1971) Gordon Jacob An Original Suite (1928) William Byrd Suite (1923) Joseph Willcox Jenkins American Overture for Band, Op. 13 (1956) David Maslanka A Child's Garden of Dreams (1981) Peter Mennin ...
L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1 became so popular that the publisher Choudens commissioned a second set, L'Arlésienne, 2 me Suite d'Orchestre, in 1879, four years after Bizet's untimely death. [3] His friend Ernest Guiraud is claimed to have arranged the other three large scale movements and, adding an extraneous number (the Minuet), assembled a ...