Both Uses of
prelude
in
The Fountainhead
- The cold washed the colors of the earth, revealing that they were not colors but only the elements from which color was to come, the dead brown not a full brown but a future green, the tired purple an overture to flame, the gray a prelude to gold.†
Chpt 4.3
- Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.†
Chpt 4.19 *
Definition:
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(prelude) something that prepares for or introduces what is to follow
or:
music #1: an introductory piece of music -- such as might introduce an act of an opera
or:
music #2: a short independent piece of music -- typically for piano