Something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows.
Musical compositions that introduce another or larger instrumental work.
1 The second loss, however, turned out to be prelude to a renaissance.
2 To Goethe, nature is the symphony; to Byron it is the prelude .
3 The whole conduct of the court-martial was in keeping with that prelude .
4 The prelude in D-flat represents a larger flight of the Chopin fancy.
5 In general, model selection is an important prelude to subsequent statistical inference.
6 But the subject of arrests was but the prelude to the play.
7 As a prelude to the corporal punishment the principal delivered a lecture.
8 We have first a prelude extending to the middle of verse 3.
9 Still they are only the prelude of the fuller song of Browning.
10 The bewilderment was half shame and half the prelude to profound rejoicing.
11 The solemn prelude began from a full concert of the various instruments.
12 This was all a dance, a prelude to what would come later.
13 Outside Leinster House it was like the prelude to a boyband concert.
14 These incidents were the prelude to the storm which shortly afterward burst.
15 As it happened, it was only a prelude to the real performance.
16 Is it a prelude to war, a bargaining tactic or a warning?
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