A Prelude ("before play") is something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows after it. It may also refer to:*Prelude (music), a musical stylePrelude (band), an English based folk bandPrelude (Deodato album), 1972 album by Eumir DeodatoThe Prelude, a poem by William WordsworthPreludes (poem), a poem by T. S. Eliot"Prelude" (short story), a short story by New Zealand author Katherine MansfieldPrelude Records (record label), a former New York-based dance independent record lab… (More on Prelude)