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Prelude   /prˈeɪlˌud/   Listen
noun
Prelude  n.  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; with recent composers often synonymous with overture. "The last Georgic was a good prelude to the Aenis" "The cause is more than the prelude, the effect is more than the sequel, of the fact."
Synonyms: Preface; introduction; preliminary; preamble; forerunner; harbinger; precursor.


verb
Prelude  v. t.  
1.
To introduce with a previous performance; to play or perform a prelude to; as, to prelude a concert with a lively air.
2.
To serve as prelude to; to precede as introductory. "(Music) preluding some great tragedy."


Prelude  v. i.  (past & past part. preluded; pres. part. preluding)  To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance; to serve as prelude. "The musicians preluded on their instruments." "We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point."





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"Prelude" Quotes from Famous Books



... sorrowful, low lamentation; Till, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision, As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops Shakes down the rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. With such a prelude as this, and hearts that throbbed with emotion, Slowly they entered the Teche, where it flows through the green Opelousas, And, through the amber air, above the crest of the woodland, Saw the column of smoke that arose from a neighboring dwelling;— Sounds of a horn ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck
... sonnet has all the strange strength of that despair which is but the prelude to a ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde
... way from the arm of Ione, still cast round her, as if that soft embrace embarrassed; and placing her light and graceful instrument on her knee, after a short prelude, she sang the ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
... must say that you are as ungrateful as you are presumptuous; for I am not such a novice in the affairs of the world as to be ignorant that when a young lady professes to be of a different opinion from her friends, it is only a prelude to something worse. She begins by saying that she is determined to think for herself, and she is determined to act for herself—and then it is all over with her: and all the money, &c. that has been spent upon her education is so much dead ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. III - Belinda • Maria Edgeworth
... we have the same thing said by another man in another key. 'Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.' The prelude to the assertion makes all the difference. Here is the warranted confidence of a ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren


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