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Definition

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

The move is seen as a prelude to a declaration of war.

prelude = something that prepares for or introduces what is to follow

a prelude to dictatorship
the Prelude to Act 1 of La Traviata
Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
My favorite song by Duke Ellington's is Prelude to a Kiss.
Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

prelude = something that prepares for or introduces what is to follow

The person, whoever it was, gave a small cough, evidently as a prelude to speaking.
George Orwell -- 1984

prelude = something to prepare for what follows

Rudy understood nothing, and that night was the prelude of things to come.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

prelude = something that prepares for or introduces what is to follow

Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Vosch draws out the word, a prelude.
Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
Years before, they often went there as prelude to a romantic night.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
And all of this was merely a prelude to the big street dance that would begin at midnight and end at one in the morning.
Heather Brewer -- Tenth Grade Bleeds
There were long lonely preludes to winter in the splendid pines, and a whistling of wind in the long grasses.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
This discovery was a prelude to a certain and horrible death.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
The foregoing investigation into the nature of the idea of Texas is put down as a prelude to my journeying across Texas with Charley in Rocinante.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
The two ladies entered the drawing-room with that sort of official stiffness which preludes a formal communication.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
O curst essay of arms, disastrous doom, Prelude of bloody fields, and fights to come!
Virgil -- The Aeneid
And then the fact that he was actually saying something that sounded like it might be a prelude to asking me out"well, I nearly threw up.
Meg Cabot -- The Princess Diaries
Is this the prelude to some hackneyed saw?
Sophocles -- Antigone
Hippolyte said to me, without any prelude, that the general had promised the widow four hundred roubles.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

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