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"Prelude" Definition

noun

An introductory performance, event, or action preceding a more important one; a preliminary or preface.
Music A piece or movement that serves as an introduction to another section or composition and establishes the key, such as one that precedes a fugue, opens a suite, or precedes a church service.
Music A short composition of the 15th and early 16th centuries written in a free style, usually for keyboard.
Music A similar but independent composition for the piano.
Music The overture to an oratorio, opera, or act of an opera.

verb-transitive

To introduce with or as if with a prelude.
To serve as a prelude to.

verb-intransitive

To serve as a prelude or introduction.

verb

To serve as a prelude to.
To play as a prelude.
To give or serve as a prelude.
To play a musical introduction.

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