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{{Title|Overture}}
{{Infobox song
{{Status|RealWorld}}
{{disambig header|the Halo: Reach soundtrack|the Halo 3: ODST soundtrack|Overture (Halo 3: ODST)}}
{{Music infobox
  | name      = Overture
  | name      = Overture
  | yt     = 8mx-_QOE2j8
  | video     = <youtube width="200" height="25">UB5h5YF__JA</youtube>
  | album      = ''[[Halo: Reach Original Soundtrack]]''
  | album      = [[Halo: Reach Original Soundtrack]]
  | composer  = [[Martin O'Donnell]] and [[Michael Salvatori]]
  | composer  = [[Martin O'Donnell]] and [[Michael Salvatori]]
  | length    = 4:47
  | length    = 4:47
  | next      = [[Winter Contingency (music)| Winter Contingency]]
  | next      = [[Winter Contingency (song)| Winter Contingency]]
  }}
  }}


'''Overture''' is the first track (Disc 1 Track 1) included in ''[[Halo: Reach Original Soundtrack]]''. It is composed of ''From the Beginning'' (0:00-0:17), ''Swift, Strong, Brave'' (0:17-2:04), ''Immemorial'' (2:04-3:21), ''Remember Reach'' (3:21-3:51), and ''The Fall'' (3:51-4:47).
'''Overture''' is the first track heard on the [[Halo: Reach Original Soundtrack]].


==Overview==
==Appearances==
===From the Beginning===
The song can be heard in the opening cinematic for the first campaign level of ''Halo: Reach'', [[Noble Actual]]. Various parts of the song can also be heard in-game throughout the different campaign levels and cinematics. Pieces of this song (though faint) can be heard in other songs on the Halo:Reach Soundtrack as well.
''From the Beginning'' (0:17) features vocals and strings playing a rising progression, which echoes the first phrase of the opening Gregorian chant in the ''[[Halo Theme]]''. This piece plays when first entering the [[main menu|menu]] of ''[[Halo: Reach]]''.


===Swift, Strong, Brave===
==Trivia==
''Swift, Strong, Brave'' (1:47) opens with a percussion solo from ''Pounding the Pavement'' (from ''[[Neon Night]]'' in ''[[Halo 3: ODST Original Soundtrack]]'') before joined by strings and piano playing a grand melody. The melody plays in variations, soon accompanied by vocals. Together they invoke the opening Gregorian chant from the ''Halo Theme'' before ending with a drumroll. This piece plays in the menu of ''Halo: Reach''. A percussion-only version plays in the level ''[[The Package]]'', when [[NOBLE Team]] defends [[Catherine Halsey]]’s lab from the second wave of Covenant, and in ''Halo: Reach'' [[Firefight]], during the final wave of a round.  
*[[Overture (ODST)|Overture]] is also the name of the first track from the [[Halo 3: ODST Original Soundtrack]].
*The first part of the track contains the percussion from the last part of [[Neon Night| Neon Night]] from the Halo 3: ODST Original Soundtrack.


===Immemorial===
{{Soundtrack List
''Immemorial'' (1:17) is strings-only version of ''Kat’s Plan'' (from the later track ''[[Long Night of Solace (music)|Long Night of Solace]]''), which has incorporated the first phrase from ''Halo Theme'' into its suspenseful melody. This piece plays in the menu of ''Halo: Reach''.
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|1=From the Beginning
|t1 = :14
|2=Swift, Strong, Brave
|t2 = 1:47
|3=Immemorial
|t3 = 1:17
|4=Remember Reach
|t4 = 0:31
|5=The Fall
|t5 = 0:56
|total = 4:47
}}


===Remember Reach===
{{Halo Music}}
''Remember Reach'' (0:30) features brass playing a solemn melody. This piece plays in the menu of ''Halo: Reach''.
[[Category:Halo: Reach OST]]
 
===The Fall===
''The Fall'' (0:56) is a strings-only version of second section melody from the later track ''[[Ashes]]''. This piece plays in the menu of ''Halo: Reach''.
 
==Production notes==
*The name ''From the Beginning'' derives from the tagline, “From the beginning, you know the end.”
*The name ''Swift, Strong, Brave'' is likely a reference to the ''[[Halo 3]]'' campaign level ''[[Arrival]]'', when [[Cortana]] is describing Spartan-IIs and [[John-117]]: "Like the others, you were strong, and swift, and brave; a natural leader..."
*Like ''[[Remembrance]]'' from ''[[Halo 2: Original Soundtrack]]'', ''Immemorial'' is approximately 1 minute and 17 seconds long, a reference to John-117.
*''The Fall'' alludes to the [[Fall of Reach]].
 
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