Coda vs. Overture: What's the Difference?

(Music) The concluding passage of a movement or composition.

An instrumental composition intended especially as an introduction to an extended work, such as an opera or oratorio.

A conclusion or closing part of a statement.

A similar orchestral work intended for independent concert performance.

(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

An introductory section or part, as of a poem; a prelude.

(phonology) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.

An act, offer, or proposal that indicates readiness to undertake a course of action or open a relationship.

(geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.

To present as an introduction or proposal.

(figuratively) A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.

To present or make an offer or proposal to.

A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

(obsolete) An opening; a recess or chamber.

The closing section of a musical composition

(obsolete) Disclosure; discovery; revelation.

(often in plural) An approach or proposal made to initiate communication, establish a relationship etc.

(Scotland) A motion placed before a legislative body, such as the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

(music) A musical introduction to a piece of music, or a play.

(intransitive) To make overtures; to approach with a proposal.

An opening or aperture; a recess; a chamber.

Disclosure; discovery; revelation.

A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.

A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; - called in the latter case a concert overture.

To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.

Orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio

Something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows;

A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others;