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 (Jack McDuff album), a 1963 album by jazz organist Brother Jack McDuff
 * Prelude (Deodato album), a 1973 album by Eumir Deodato
 * Prelude (The Moody Blues album), a 1987 album by The Moody Blues
 * Prelude (EP), a 2017 EP by April
 * Prelude, a 2021 EP by Lauren Jauregui
 * "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.