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Definition
something that prepares for or introduces what is to follow
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music #1: an introductory piece of music — such as might introduce an act of an opera
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music #2: a short independent piece of music — typically for piano
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
- PRELUDE Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors?Prelude (0% in)
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