0 something that comes before a more important event or action that introduces or prepares for it -- 序幕，先声，前奏
The changes are seen as a prelude to wide-ranging reforms. 这些变化被视为大范围改革的序幕。
1 a short piece of music that introduces the main work -- 序曲
What most irritates me about the reiteration of demands for proportional representation is that they are always preluded by the word "fair".
As preludes to air transportation, these historic projects were of major importance.
Every military agreement was preluded by a disclaimer of political significance.
There were the usual self-confident statements, indicative of our under-estimation of the skill and resources of the enemy, statements which have proved to be the invariable preludes to disaster.
Example 6 reproduces the reduction of this prelude from the vocal score, with added analytical notation indicating some of the goaldirected motions.
His piano works include two solo sonatas, an early set of preludes, and a later set of 24 preludes and fugues.
Along with its elements of minimalism, the preludes utilize many references to piano music of earlier periods, a tenet of postmodernism.
They are thus less predictable than the preludes and compositionally mark an advance in technique.
