1. Something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
   - preliminary, overture 
2. Music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera

1. Serve as a prelude or opening to 
2. Play as a prelude

Derived forms: preluded, preludes, preluding

Type of: function, inception, music [archaic], origin, origination, play, serve, spiel

Encyclopedia: Prelude Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs

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