Prelude
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A Prelude ("before play") is something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows after it. It may also refer to:
- Prelude (music), a musical form
- The Prelude, a poem by William Wordsworth
- Preludes, a poem by T. S. Eliot
- "Prelude" (short story), a short story by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield
- Honda Prelude, an automobile manufactured by Honda
- Prelude-IDS, open source hybrid IDS framework
[edit] Music
- Preludes (Chopin), a set of 24 piano pieces by Frédéric Chopin, written between 1835 and 1839
- Prelude in C-sharp minor (Rachmaninoff), a piano piece by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in 1892
- Preludes (Debussy), two sets of piano pieces by Claude Debussy, written between 1909 and 1913
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, an orchestral piece by Debussy
- Prelude Records (record label), a former New York-based dance independent record label
- Prelude Records, a specialist classical music CD shop in Norwich, England
- Prelude (band), a British rock band
- Marionette -prelude-, a prelude to Ayumi Hamasaki's 2007/2008 song Marionette from her 9th studio album, Guilty
- Prelude is the title of a funk/jazz fusion album by native Brazilian keyboarder Eumir Deodato, released in 1973 and famous for the jazzy/funky arrangement of Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra
- "Prelude", a song by Hawkwind from their 1980 album Levitation
- "Prelude (The Family Trip)", a song by the band Marilyn Manson from their 1994 debut album Portrait of an American Family
- "Prelude", a song by Symphony X from their 2000 album V-The New Mythology Suite
- "Prelude", a song by LL Cool J from his 1995 album Mr. Smith
- "Prelude", a song by Camper Van Beethoven from their album New Roman Times
- "Prelude 12/21" is a single off of Decemberunderground from AFI
- "Prelude", a song commonly used in the intro of the Final Fantasy Game series
- "Prelude" a song by the musician Yanni Chrysomallis, a World Music band/orchestra performance piece
- "The Prelude", a song from Kingdom Come, the 2007 album from Jay-Z
- "Prelude 3.0", a song by Slipknot from their 2004 album Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
- Preludes - Rare and Unreleased Recordings, an album by Warren Zevon
- "Prelude", a guitar solo by Yngwie Malmsteen, from the Album Rising Force