Italian overture
noun
: an overture in three movements to an 18th-century Italian opera or oratorio
The Italian overture was to endure in popularity until the end of the eighteenth century and be paramount in the development of the classical symphony.—Jean Grundy Fanelli, Opera for Everyone, 2004
called also sinfonia
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