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pre-echo
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pre-echo [priːˈɛkəʊ]
n
1. something that has preceded and anticipated something else; precursor
2. (Electronics) a fault in an audio recording in which a sound that is to come is heard too early: on tape sometimes caused by print-through


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The concert opened with Northern Sinfonia's 18 solo strings in Britten's Prelude and Fugue, which should be heard more often - astonishing how the coda pre-echoes the string sound used by many contemporary composers - and the second half opened with Bach's Third Orchestral Suite.
Yet the work is full of rewarding curiosities, with pre-echoes of the fourth symphony in the first movement and reminders of the composer's lessons with Ravel in the curious, waltz-like end to the finale, while the romanza is top-drawer Vaughan Williams.
There are pre-echoes of Henry V 'petty dukedoms' suggests 'petty and unprofitable dukedoms' (3 Chorus 31).
 
 
 
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