Prelude

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