Prelude
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Prelude may refer to:
- Prelude (short story), a famous short story by Albert Halper widely read in English classes
- Prelude (music), a musical form
- 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", a 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", 1963 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
- Prelude to Foundation, a 1988 novel in the Foundation series
- Prelude-IDS, open source hybrid IDS framework
- The Haskell Prelude, a standard module imported by default into Haskell programs
- Prelude (Alias episode)
Music
'Prelude' is a very common term as a title of a musical piece, both classical and popular. Some specific Preludes are:
- Preludes (Chopin), a set of 24 piano pieces by Frédéric Chopin, written between 1835 and 1839
- Prelude in C sharp minor (Rachmaninoff), a piano piece by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in 1892
- Préludes (Debussy), two sets of piano pieces by Claude Debussy, written between 1909 and 1913
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, an orchestral piece by Debussy
- Preludes (Kabalevsky), a set of 24 piano pieces in the Chopinian model, each based in a folk song