preludes in English

noun

1

an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important.

education cannot simply be a prelude to a career

synonyms: preliminary, overture, opening, preparation, introduction, start, commencement, beginning, lead-in, precursor

2

an introductory piece of music, most commonly an orchestral opening to an act of an opera, the first movement of a suite, or a piece preceding a fugue.

His surviving output consists solely of instrumental music, including organ preludes and fugues, concertos for two harpsichords, and trio sonatas, much of it strongly influenced by Bach.

synonyms: overture, introductory movement, introduction, opening

verb

1

serve as a prelude or introduction to.

the bombardment preluded an all-out final attack

noun

preliminary, overture, opening, preparation, introduction, start, commencement, beginning, lead-in, precursor
overture, introductory movement, introduction, opening
introduction, preface, prologue, foreword, preamble, intro, lead-in, exordium, proem, prolegomenon
overture, preliminary

Use "preludes" in a sentence

1. She preludes her remarks with a jest.

2. Listen to Christian Wolff: Burdocks & Bowery Preludes (Arr

3. In the moribund patient deepening coma are the usual preludes to death.

4. Rodders well-delayed preclassically practising mellophone pavilion's sempervirent instrumentate Barbera Alaund preludes acyls affranchised

5. Bach's masterpiece Passion oratorio consists of four parts: introductory choral preludes, recitative, chorales , and solo arias.

6. Bach's masterpiece Passion oratorio consists of four parts: introductory choral preludes, recitative, chorales [sentencedict .com], and solo arias.

7. Gregory Nagy regards "the larger Homeric Hymns as simple preludes (compared with Theogony), each of which invokes one god".

8. The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846-893, collection of 48 preludes and fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach, published in two books (1722 and 1742)