Significados de short prelude em inglês

Before he was through the first short prelude, he had us in his snare.

Lillian stopped, took another book, and commenced, after a short prelude, one of my own songs.

He accepted the implied invitation, played a short prelude, and taking Homer's suggestion of topic, sang in parallel with it:-

He said nothing more, but played a short prelude and began to sing in his small, but warm, tenor voice.

The rest of the company composed themselves to listen; and, after a short prelude, Lorimer, in a fine manly voice, began-

But first he struck his instrument, and ran over a short prelude, which may be imagined by a series of false notes, running as follows:-

But already during the short prelude he turned his head attentively towards Schulhoff who now performed an Allegro brillantenformedeSenate(Op.