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[Annotated extract from ‘The History of Western Music’ ‘The tonal era and after: 1600 to the present’ ‘THE BAROQUE ERA’ ‘Opera’ ‘Neaopolitan Opera’]

‘Other features were... second, the establishment of the Italian overture. Called a sinfonia, the overture in three parts (fast-slow-fast) evolved into the symphony during the 18^th century.’*

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**[Encyclopaedia Britannica 24: 556]

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