All 3 Uses
prelude
in
The Graveyard Book
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- Bod had listened to all kinds of music: the sweet chimes of the ice-cream van, the songs that played on workmen's radios, the tunes that Claretty Jake played the dead on his dusty fiddle, but he had never heard anything like this before: a series of deep swells, like the music at the beginning of something, a prelude perhaps, or an overture.†
p. 153.6
- If the music Bod had heard until then was a prelude, it was a prelude no longer.†
p. 158.5 *
- If the music Bod had heard until then was a prelude, it was a prelude no longer.†
p. 158.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(prelude) something that comes before and prepares for what follows; in music, a short piece that introduces a larger work or stands alone as a brief, expressive piece (often for piano)In everyday use, a prelude is an event or action that leads up to something more important, like a small disagreement being a prelude to a larger conflict. In music, the word can mean a short opening piece (for example, before an opera scene) or a short, self-contained work, often written for piano or organ, that sets a mood.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)