Prelude
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Prelude may refer to:
  • Sheaffer Prelude
    Sheaffer Prelude
    The Sheaffer Prelude fountain pens, rollerball pens and ballpoints are a line of writing instruments made by the Sheaffer Pen Company.- Construction & Trim :...

    , a series of fountain pens, ballpoints and rollerball
    Rollerball
    Rollerball can refer to:*Rollerball pen, a type of ballpoint pen and ink*another name for a trackball in computing*Rollerball , a science fiction film based on the short story "Rollerball Murder"...

     pens made by the Sheaffer
    Sheaffer
    Sheaffer is a pen company that manufactures writing instruments including ballpoint, fountain and rollerball pens and mechanical pencils. It is famous for its “school” lineup of fountain pens, as well as calligraphy sets....

     Pen company
  • Prelude (music)
    Prelude (music)
    A prelude is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. The prelude can be thought of as a preface. It may stand on its own or introduce another work...

    , a musical form
  • Prelude (band)
    Prelude (band)
    Prelude are an English based vocal folk group, who in their most famous line-up consisted of Brian Hume , his wife Irene Hume and Ian Vardy...

    , an English based folk band
  • Prelude (The Moody Blues album), 1987 album by The Moody Blues
  • Prelude (Deodato album)
    Prelude (Deodato album)
    Prelude is a 1972 album of Brazilian keyboardist Eumir Deodato. It features guitarist John Tropea on three tracks, bassists Ron Carter and Stanley Clarke, and Billy Cobham on drums...

    , 1972 album by Eumir Deodato
  • Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings, an album by Warren Zevon
  • Prelude (Pete Townshend song)
  • "The Prelude
    The Prelude
    The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind is an autobiographical, "philosophical" poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. Wordsworth wrote the first version of the poem when he was 28, and worked over the rest of it for his long life without publishing it...

    ", a poem by William Wordsworth
  • "Preludes" (poem)
    Preludes (poem)
    "Preludes" is a poem by T. S. Eliot, composed between 1910 and 1911. It is in turns literal and impressionistic, exploring the sordid and solitary existences of the spiritually moiled as they play out against the backdrop of the drab modern city. In essence, it is four poems rather than one, and...

    , a poem by T. S. Eliot
  • "Prelude" (short story)
    Prelude (short story)
    Prelude is a 1918 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published by the Hogarth Press in July 1918, and later reprinted in Bliss and Other Stories.-Plot summary:I...

    , a short story by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield
  • "Prelude", 1952 episode of the Hallmark Hall of Fame
    Hallmark Hall of Fame
    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The second longest-running television program in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2011...

    based on the relationship between George Sand and Frédéric Chopin
  • Prelude Records (record label)
    Prelude Records (record label)
    Prelude Records was a New York-based dance independent record label, active from 1976 to 1986. At one time, François Kevorkian held an A&R position at Prelude. The label owner was Marvin Schlachter.-History:...

    , a former New York-based dance independent record label
  • Prelude Records (shop), a specialist classical music CD shop in Norwich, England
  • Honda Prelude
    Honda Prelude
    The Honda Prelude was a sports coupe produced by Japanese automaker Honda from 1978 until 2001. It replaced the Honda S800, a front-engined, front wheel drive sports car...

    , an automobile manufactured by Honda
  • Prelude to Foundation
    Prelude to Foundation
    Prelude to Foundation is a Locus Award nominated 1988 novel written by Isaac Asimov. It is one of two prequels to the Foundation Series. For the first time, Asimov chronicles the fictional life of Hari Seldon, the man who invented psychohistory and the intellectual hero of the series.-Plot...

    , a 1988 novel in the Foundation series
  • Prelude-IDS
    Prelude Hybrid IDS
    Prelude is an "agentless", universal, security information management system, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License....

    , open source hybrid IDS framework
  • The Haskell Prelude, a standard module imported by default into Haskell
    Haskell (programming language)
    Haskell is a standardized, general-purpose purely functional programming language, with non-strict semantics and strong static typing. It is named after logician Haskell Curry. In Haskell, "a function is a first-class citizen" of the programming language. As a functional programming language, the...

     programs
  • Prelude (Alias episode)
  • Prelude FLNG, a Shell's project of the FLNG vessel

Music

'Prelude' is a very common term as a title of a musical piece, both classical and popular. Some specific Preludes are:
  • Preludes (Chopin), a set of 24 piano pieces by Frédéric Chopin, written between 1835 and 1839
  • Prelude in C sharp minor (Rachmaninoff), a piano piece by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in 1892
  • Préludes (Debussy)
    Preludes (Debussy)
    Claude Debussy's Préludes are two sets of pieces for solo piano. They are divided into two separate livres, or books, of twelve preludes each. Unlike previous collections of preludes, like those of JS Bach and Chopin, Debussy's do not follow a strict pattern of key signatures.Each book was written...

    , two sets of piano pieces by Claude Debussy, written between 1909 and 1913
  • Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , commonly known by its English title Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration...

    , an orchestral piece by Debussy
  • Preludes (Kabalevsky)
    Preludes (Kabalevsky)
    Dmitry Kabalevsky's Preludes Op. 38 are a set of 24 piano pieces in the Chopinian model, each based in a folksong. It was composed in 1943-44, and dedicated to Nikolai Myaskovsky, his teacher....

    , a set of 24 piano pieces in the Chopinian model, each based in a folk song
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