prelude: betekenis en definities

An introductory performance, event, or action preceding a more important one; a preliminary or preface.

Music A piece or movement that serves as an introduction to another section or composition and establishes the key, such as one that precedes a fugue, opens a suite, or precedes a church service.

Music A similar but independent composition for the piano.

Music The overture to an oratorio, opera, or act of an opera.

Music A short composition of the 15th and early 16th centuries written in a free style, usually for keyboard.

To serve as a prelude to.

To introduce with or as if with a prelude.

To serve as a prelude or introduction.