Prelude vs Epilogue - What's the difference?
prelude | epilogue |
An introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface.
(music) A short piece of music that acts as an introduction to a longer piece.
To introduce something, as a prelude.
To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Jeffrey
A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play
The performer who gives this speech
A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword
(computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.
As verbs the difference between prelude and epilogue
is that prelude is while epilogue is .prelude
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(prelud)- The musicians preluded on their instruments.
- We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.