During the early Romantic era, composers such as Mendelssohn began to use the term to refer to independent, self-existing instrumental, programmatic works that presaged genres such as the symphonic poem, a form devised by Franz Liszt in several works that began as dramatic overtures.
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Since the days of President Nixon's dramatic overture to China in the early 1970s, which the Japanese did not learn about until moments before the public announcement, there has been concern that Tokyo might again be left in the dark on U . S .-China relations.
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In his dramatic overture to the United States and Europe this fall, Putin committed Russia to the war against terrorism, opened the doors to ending standoffs over the expansion of NATO and missile defense, and declared that Russia's aim is quick and full-fledged membership in the family of western democratic nations.
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The only full-fledged examples here are Gunther Schuller's " Dramatic Overture " ( 1951 ), a beautifully textured 12-tone score, given a fine performance under the baton of Dimitri Mitropoulos in 1957, and Elliott Carter's Concerto for Orchestra ( 1969 ), played with remarkable solidity under Pierre Boulez in 1975.
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According to musicologist Lewis Lockwood, Beethoven s music for this ballet is " easier and lighter than music for the concert hall & [ I ] t shows Beethoven exploiting instruments and coloristic orchestral effects that would never appear in his symphonies or serious dramatic overtures . " Beethoven later based the fourth " Eroica " symphony and his Eroica Variations ( piano ) on the main theme of the last movement ( Finale ) of this ballet.
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Throughout his career he continually revised his compositions : titles were changed with an almost casual regularity ( for instance, the opera " Pierrot and Pierrette " became " The Stranger ", the opera-ballet " The Wizard " became " The Enchanter " and the dramatic overture for brass band " 1914 " became " Clive of India " ), many works were assigned several different opus numbers at different times, he borrowed music from one piece to another and recast works in different forms : for example, " The Pit and the Pendulum " draws its material from the opera-ballet " The Enchanter ", Symphony No . 7 ( " Al Aaraaf " ) is a transcription for string orchestra of a String Sextet, " The Masque of the Red Death " which was originally another orchestral poem became a ballet, and what was illustrative of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's " The Skeleton in Armour " was seemingly also a close depiction of Byron's " The Corsair ", whilst several different versions of his orchestral variations on " Auld Lang Syne " exist with a number of the supposed'musical portraits'apparently applicable simultaneously to different contemporaries.
