Prelude may refer to:

Music

Prelude (music) A prelude ( or '; ; ; ) is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. While, during the Baroque era, for example, it may have served as an introduction to succeeding movements of a work that were usually longer a ...

, a musical form *

Prelude (band) Prelude are an English-based vocal harmony group, who in their most famous line-up consisted of Brian Hume (vocals, guitar), his wife Irene Hume (vocals) and Ian Vardy (guitars, vocals). They formed in their native Gateshead in 1970, having ini ...

, an English-based folk band *

Prelude Records (record label) Prelude Records was a New York–based independent record label that was active from 1976 to 1986. At one time, François Kevorkian held an A&R position at Prelude. The label's owner was Marvin Schlachter, and his business partner was Stan Hoff ...

, a former New York-based dance independent record label *

Chorale prelude In music, a chorale prelude or chorale setting is a short liturgical composition for pipe organ, organ using a chorale tune as its basis. It was a predominant style of the German Baroque music, Baroque era and reached its culmination in the works ...

, a short liturgical composition for organ using a chorale as its basis

Albums and songs

* ''Prelude'' (Jack McDuff album), a 1963 album by jazz organist Brother Jack McDuff * ''Prelude'' (Deodato album), a 1973 album by Eumir Deodato * ''Prelude'' (The Moody Blues album), a 1987 album by The Moody Blues * ''Prelude'' (EP), a 2017 EP by April *''Prelude'', a 2021 EP by

Lauren Jauregui Lauren Michelle Jauregui Morgado (; born June 27, 1996) is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Fifth Harmony, which became one of the List of best-selling girl groups, best-selling girl groups ...

*"Prelude", a song by Flobots from '' Flobots Present... Platypus'' *"Prelude", a song by Hieroglyphics from '' Full Circle'' *"Prelude", an instrumental by Kate Bush from '' Aerial'' *"Prelude", a song by Killswitch Engage from ''Killswitch Engage'' (2000 album) *"Prelude", a song by the Oh Hellos from '' Dear Wormwood'' *"Prelude", a song by Pete Townshend from ''All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes'' *"Prelude", a song by the Sword from ''Used Future''

Musical works

'Prelude' is a very common term as a title of a musical piece, both classical and popular. Some specific preludes are: *''Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune'', a popular orchestral piece by Debussy *Prelude in C-sharp minor (Rachmaninoff), an 1892 piano work by Sergei Rachmaninoff *Preludes (Chopin), a set of 24 piano pieces by Frédéric Chopin, written between 1835 and 1839 *Préludes (Debussy), ''Préludes'' (Debussy), two books of piano pieces by Claude Debussy written between 1909 and 1913 *Preludes (Kabalevsky), a set of 24 piano pieces, each based in a folk song *Preludes (musical), ''Preludes'' (musical), a 2015 musical by Dave Malloy *''Les préludes'', a symphonic poem by Franz Liszt

Literature

*''The Prelude'', an epic poem by William Wordsworth *Prelude (short story), "Prelude" (short story), a short story by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield *''Prelude to Foundation'', a 1988 novel in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' series *Preludes (Dragonlance series), ''Preludes'' (Dragonlance series), two trilogies comprising a series of novels set in the Dragonlance world *Preludes (poem), "Preludes" (poem), a poem by T. S. Eliot

Other uses

*Prelude (Alias episode), "Prelude" (''Alias'' episode), in the TV spy drama series *Prelude (yacht), ''Prelude'' (yacht), a trailer sailer designed by Ian Proctor *Prelude FLNG, the world's largest floating liquefied natural gas platform *Prelude SIEM (Intrusion Detection System), an open source a security information and event management system *Haskell Prelude, a standard module imported by default into Haskell programs; see Haskell features *Honda Prelude, an automobile manufactured by Honda *Sheaffer Prelude, a series of pens by the Sheaffer Pen company *''The preludes'', videos released on YouTube by Swedish band iamamiwhoami *Preludes (film series), shorts commissioned by the 2000 Toronto Film Festival *Christmas Prelude, annual festival in Maine, U.S. {{disambiguation