Prelude
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A Prelude ("before play") 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
- Prelude, a South African band
- "Prelude", a short story by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield
- 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
- Prelude Records (record label), a former New York-based dance independent record label
- Prelude Records, a specialist classical music CD shop in Norwich, England
- Preludes, two sets of piano pieces by Claude Debussy, written between 1909 and 1913.
- Prélude, an instrumental band from Maryland.
- Prelude is the title of a funk/jazz fusion album by native Brazilian keyboarder Eumir Deodato, released in 1973 and famous for the jazzy/funky arrangement of Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra
- "Prelude", a song by Hawkwind from their 1980 album Levitation
- "Prelude (The Family Trip)", a song by the band Marilyn Manson from their 1994 debut album Portrait of an American Family.
- "Prelude", a song by Symphony X from their 2000 album V-The New Mythology Suite.
- "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
- "Prelude 3.0", a song by Slipknot from their 2004 album Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses).
- Preludes - Rare and Unreleased Recordings, an album by Warren Zevon