Overture

7 articles related to Overture:

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   Orchestra

   Les Indes Galantes: Rameau's controversial opera as the essence of Rococo style

   Les Indes Galantes is Jean-Philippe Rameau's first stage work in the opéra-ballet form with a prologue and four entrées…

   January 23, 2021

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   Music Theory

   Classic examples of the Phrygian mode through the music eras

   From Middle Ages to modernity, Western music has been largely based on diatonic scales that organize seven notes into…

   August 24, 20194 comments

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   Orchestra

   The many attempts of Romantic composers to adapt Shakuntala love story from Mahabharata epic

   The love story of Shakuntala is first mentioned in the oldest Sanskrit epic of the Mahābhārata which could be traced…

   July 17, 2019

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   Orchestra

   The attractive sounds of Nordic Romanticism of Wilhelm Stenhammar

   Swedish pianist Wilhelm Stenhammar was one of the few composers who remained faithful to the ideas of Romanticism in…

   February 1, 2019

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   Orchestra

   The misty seascape embodied in Mendelssohn's surging overture

   The Hebrides, also called Hebrides Overture or Overture to the Lonely Isle, is an orchestra piece by Felix Mendelssohn,…

   April 21, 2018

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   Orchestra

   Beethoven was inspired by Goethe’s rhythmic poetry

   From 1809 to 1810, Beethoven composed the overture to Goethe’s play Egmont, depicting the life of the count of Egmont,…

   April 8, 2018

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   Orchestra

   The ever-evolving legend of Coriolanus

   The Coriolan Overture, written by Ludwig van Beethoven, is an adaptation of Heinrich Joseph von Collin's tragedy…

   March 8, 2018