Prelude

A Prelude is something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows after it. It may also refer to:

• Prelude (music), a musical form
• Prelude, a British rock band
• The Prelude, a poem by William Wordsworth
• Preludes, a poem by T. S. Eliot
• Honda Prelude, an automobile manufactured by Honda
• Prelude-IDS, open source hybrid IDS framework

Music

• "Prélude", an instrumental band from Maryland.
• "Prelude" is the title of an funk/jazz fusion album by native brasilian keyborder Eumir Deodato, released in 1973 and famous for the jazzy/funky arrangement of Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001).
• "Prelude", a song by Hawkwind from their 1980 album Levitation
• "Prelude", a song by LL Cool J from his 1995 album Mr. Smith
• "Prelude", a song by Camper Van Beethoven from their album New Roman Times
• "Prelude 12/21" is a single off of Decemberunderground from AFI
• "Prelude", a song commonly used in the intro of the Final Fantasy Game series.
• "Prelude" a song by the musician Yanni Chrysomallis", a World Music band/orchestra performance piece.
• The Prelude, a song from Kingdom Come, the 2007 album from Jay-Z
• "Prelude", an album by piano artist Sebastian Sidi