Prelude

Prelude may refer to:

  • Prelude (music), a musical form
    • Chorale prelude, short liturgical composition for organ using a chorale as its basis
  • Prelude (band), an English based folk band
  • Prelude (The Moody Blues album), 1987 album by The Moody Blues
  • Prelude (Deodato album), 1972 album by Eumir Deodato
  • Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings, an album by Warren Zevon
  • Prelude (Pete Townshend song)
  • The Prelude, an epic poem by William Wordsworth
  • "Preludes" (poem), a poem by T. S. Eliot
  • "Prelude" (short story), a short story by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield
  • "Prelude", 1952 episode of the Hallmark Hall of Fame based on the relationship between George Sand and Frédéric Chopin
  • Prelude Records (record label), a former New York-based dance independent record label
  • Prelude Records (shop), a specialist classical music CD shop in Norwich, England
  • Honda Prelude, an automobile manufactured by Honda
  • Sheaffer Prelude, a series of fountain pens, ballpoints and rollerball pens made by the Sheaffer Pen company
  • Prelude to Foundation, 1988 novel in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
  • Prelude-IDS, open source hybrid IDS framework
  • The Haskell Prelude, a standard module imported by default into Haskell programs
  • Prelude (Alias episode)
  • Prelude FLNG, Shell's project of floating liquefied natural gas

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Famous quotes containing the word prelude:

    “I got a little secretarial job after college, but I thought of it as a prelude. Education, work, whatever you did before marriage, was only a prelude to your real life, which was marriage.”
    —Bonnie Carr (c. early 1930s)

    “The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)