Prelude
# Prelude

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.
