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Definitions of prelude:

noun:   music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera
noun:   something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
verb:   serve as a prelude or opening to
verb:   play as a prelude

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piece music motif-music bar-music overture opera oratorio lute renaissance keyboard 17th-century france unmeasured-prelude note-value harpsichord suite louis-couperin 18th-century jean-henri-d-anglebert lisabeth-jacquet-de-la-guerre-2 fran-ois-couperin-2 jean-philippe-rameau 1710s germany toccata froberger-johann-jakob girolamo-frescobaldi dieterich-buxtehude counterpoint fugue abraham-van-den-kerckhoven dutch-ethnic-group key-music johann-pachelbel johann-sebastian-bach johann-caspar-ferdinand-fischer ariadne-musica well-tempered-clavier inventions-and-sinfonias major-scale minor-scale fr-d-ric-chopin preludes-chopin claude-debussy impressionist-music 20th-century maurice-ravel le-tombeau-de-couperin arnold-schoenberg 1702 1722 1744 chromatic-scale ludwig-van-beethoven fifth preludes 1910 1913 sergei-rachmaninoff prelude-in-c-sharp-minor prelude-in-g-minor alexander-scriabin paul-hindemith ludus-tonalis 1940 alberto-ginastera 1946 dmitri-shostakovich 24-preludes-and-fugues 1951 lera-auerbach shostakovich-s-prelude-xxi-bb-major-allegro-part-of-opus-87-ogg prelude chorale-prelude honda-prelude certified-preowned-honda-prelude preludial l-apr-s-midi-d-un-faune conclusion prelusive postlude entremeses hans-heiling prelusion chronicle-2 heinrich-und-heinrichs-geschlecht liebestod vorspiel-music

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