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Prelude may refer to:

Music

• Prelude (music), a musical form
• Prelude (band), an English-based folk band
• Prelude Records (record label), a former New York-based dance independent record label
• Chorale prelude, a short liturgical composition for organ using a chorale as its basis

Albums and songs

• Prelude (EP), a 2017 EP by April
• Prelude, an EP by Lauren Jauregui
• Prelude (Jack McDuff album), a 1963 album by jazz organist Brother Jack McDuff
• Prelude (The Moody Blues album), 1987 album by The Moody Blues
• Prelude (Deodato album), a 1973 album by Eumir Deodato
• Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings, an album by Warren Zevon
• "Prelude", a song by Flobots from Flobots Present... Platypus
• "Prelude", a song by Hieroglyphics from Full Circle
• "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), 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), 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), a short story by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield
• Prelude to Foundation, a 1988 novel in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
• Preludes (Dragonlance series), a series of novels comprising two trilogies set in the Dragonlance world
• "Preludes" (poem), a poem by T. S. Eliot

Other uses

• "Prelude" (Alias episode), in the TV spy drama series
• 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.

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