A Prelude ("before play")'s something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows after it. It may also refer to:*Prelude (music), a musical style The Prelude, a poem by William Wordsworth Preludes (poem), a poem by T. S. Eliot "Prelude" (short story), a short story by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield Honda Prelude, an automobile manufactured by Honda Prelude to Foundation, a novel in the Foundation series Prelude-IDS, open source hybrid IDS framework "Prelude", a fam… (More on Prelude)