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| {{Title|Overture}} | | {{Infobox song |
| {{Status|RealWorld}}
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| {{disambig header|the Halo: Reach soundtrack|the Halo 3: ODST soundtrack|Overture (Halo 3: ODST)}}
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| | 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]] |
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| '''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]]. |
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| ==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]]''.
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| ===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. |
| | *It is also heard in the menu's of Halo Reach and in variose game lobbies. |
| | {{Soundtrack List |
| | |name = Overture |
| | |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 |
| | }} |
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| ===Immemorial===
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| ''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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| ===Remember Reach===
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| ''Remember Reach'' (0:30) features brass playing a solemn melody. This piece plays in the menu of ''Halo: Reach''.
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| ===The Fall===
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| ''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''.
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| ==Production notes==
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| *The name ''From the Beginning'' derives from the tagline, “From the beginning, you know the end.”
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| *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..."
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| *Like ''[[Remembrance]]'' from ''[[Halo 2: Original Soundtrack]]'', ''Immemorial'' is approximately 1 minute and 17 seconds long, a reference to John-117.
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| *''The Fall'' alludes to the [[Fall of Reach]].
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