Cutting cards is usually a prelude to a game, but it can be a game unto itself.

Sometimes, as in the case of the Israeli radio-alphabet stations, the prelude can also signify the nature or priority of the message to follow ( e. g. ( hypothetically ) " Charlie India Oscar-2 ", indicating that no message follows ).

The prelude can be thought of as a preface.

The prelude can also refer to an overture, particularly to those seen in an opera or an oratorio.

Such teasing may or may not be a prelude to intercourse, an ambiguity which can lead to uncomfortable situations.

Though apparently scandalous at the time, such liaisons seemed the actions of admired artists who were following the dictates of their own wills, rather than those of social convention, and in this way they were in step with their era's liberal philosophers of the cult of passion, such as Fourier, and their actual or eventual openness can be understood to be a prelude to the freer ways of the 20th century.

A report in 2008 suggested that teledildonics, along with text and email and webcams, can be used to " wind each other up to fever pitch during the working day " as a prelude to sex with a human during the evening hours.

A monument to this can now be found in the center of the square, consisting of a glass panel opening onto an underground white room with empty shelf space for 20, 000 volumes and a plaque, bearing an epigraph from an 1820 work by Heinrich Heine: " Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen " (" That was only a prelude ; where they burn books, they ultimately burn people ").

The prelude to this moment can be heard on " The Good Old Days " from the Babyshambles Sessions, in which, after the lyric, " A list of things we said we'd do tomorrow ," Doherty yells ' Get a tattoo!

“ Under some circumstances attempts at deterrence can “ backfire ” when a potential attacker misinterprets the state ’ s deterrence measures as a “ prelude to offensive measures ”.

Sometimes, the ground-based research performed with a drop tower serves as a prelude to more ambitious, in-flight investigation ; much longer periods of weightlessness can be achieved with parabolic-flight-path aircraft or with space-based laboratories aboard the Space Shuttle or the International Space Station.

This is the freely improvised unmeasured prelude, within a given dromos / makam, which can occur at the beginning or in the middle of a song.

The De la Gardie Campaign can be considered a prelude to the Ingrian War.

It can almost certainly be said that this trophy was a prelude to the World Series trophy awarded to the Major League Baseball World Series winner since 1903.

It is one of the first two Vicariates and the second Metropolitan Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Hierarchy which can be considered as a prelude to the restoration of the identity of the Church in 1992 as a Sui Juris Church.

The event is a prelude to a much larger event help a few months later where students can practice what they learned by leading others to Christ after a message from Franklin Graham.

New Era Dianetics is really only a prelude to what is available at the high levels of the Bridge including the incidents: New Era Dianetics for OTs also known as NOTS.

On April 20, 1934, ( as a prelude to the Night of the Long Knives ), Göring transferred the Gestapo to Himmler, who was also named chief of all German police forces outside Prussia ; two days later Himmler named Heydrich the head of the Gestapo.

These wars were a prelude to the long struggle of the Saxons of Alfred the Great against the Danes a generation later, which also included the leader named Guthrum, all of whom founded the Danelaw.

Wagner worked backwards from planning an opera about Siegfried's death, then deciding he needed another opera to tell of Siegfried's youth, then deciding he needed to tell the tale of Siegfried's conception and of Brünnhilde's attempts to save Siegfried's parents, and finally deciding he also needed a prelude that told of the original theft of the Rheingold and creation of the ring.

: Mr. Lindsay also published what may be called a prelude to the great work to which he has devoted his life-viz.

The characteristic rhythm in the left hand is also found in Bach's Partita No. 3 for solo violin, in the A major prelude from the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, and in the D minor prelude of the second book.

He was also seen playing a portion of Rachmaninoff's " Prelude in C # minor " in A Day at the Races and chords on the piano in A Night at the Opera, in such a way that the piano sounded much like a harp, as a prelude to actually playing the harp in that scene.

Speck also said that Macaulay too often " denies the past has its own validity, treating it as being merely a prelude to his own age.

The 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the U. S. also provides an " Order of Worship for the Evening " as a prelude to Evensong with blessings for the lighting of candles and the singing of the ancient Greek lamp-lighting hymn, the Phos Hilaron.

The first printed edition also includes an unrelated work as a kind of " encore ", the chorale prelude Vor deinen Thron tret Ich hiermit ( Herewith I come before Thy Throne ), BWV 668a, which Bach is said to have dictated on his deathbed.

* French composer Claude Debussy frequented the island and possibly drew inspiration from not only the legend of the mythical city of Ys, but also Mont-Saint-Michel's cathedral for his piano prelude La Cathedrale Engloutie.

The Gray Panthers also combated the then-popular " disengagement theory ," which argues that old age involves a necessary separation from society as a prelude to death.

In the book, he also compared what he saw as a similar naïvety in the modern Norwegian immigration policy, and Neville Chamberlain's failed negotiations with Adolf Hitler in the prelude to the Second World War.

He has also suggested that organists playing prelude music for worship services should focus on hymns, rather than classical music, in order to better prepare congregants to feel the Spirit.

The Swan of Tuonela was originally composed in 1893 as the prelude to a projected opera called The Building of the Boat ; Sibelius revised it two years later as the second of the four sections of the Lemminkäinen Suite ( Lemminkäis-sarja ), also known as the Four Legends from the Kalevala, Op.

The word " prelude " means " an introduction or an announcement of an event ", and it also means a small piece of music used to introduce a larger piece of music.

It was an evening prelude to the big day, and was also a preliminary to the grand charge on the day itself.

Byrne also illustrated Secret Origins Annual # 1, published in 1986, which recapped the origins of the two iterations of the Doom Patrol that had existed thus far, as a prelude to the relaunch of their self-titled book.

Fischer's harpsichord suites updated the standard Froberger model ( Allemande-Courante-Sarabande-Gigue ); he was also one of the first composers to apply the principles of the orchestral suite to the harpsichord, replacing the standard French ouverture with an unmeasured prelude.

* X-Superbox ( 2010 ), first featuring all 5 X-Series games, and also featuring Albion prelude for free download on Steam when registered.

Marcello also takes confession, despite his apparent atheism, as a prelude to the Catholic wedding his wife expects.

It was also a prelude to Mulroney's efforts to create far closer links between Canada and the United States, culminating in the 1988 Canada-U. S. Free Trade Agreement.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

Uribe's supporters in turn believe that increased military action is a necessary prelude to any serious negotiation attempt with the guerrillas and that the increased security situation will help to, in the long term, focus more actively on reducing most wide-scale abuses and human rights violations on the part of both the armed groups and any rogue security forces that might have links to the paramilitaries.

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.

US minimalist composer Philip Glass wrote a prelude focused on the lower register that he scored for timpani and double bass.

The presence of the two opposing armed forces in Finland, the Red and the White Guards, imposed a state of " dual power " and " multiple sovereignty " on Finnish society, typically the prelude to civil war.

The prelude to the Summer of Love was the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967, which was produced and organized by artist Michael Bowen as a " gathering of tribes ".

Instead of approaching The Hobbit as a children's book in its own right, critics such as Randell Helms picked up on the idea of The Hobbit as being a " prelude ", relegating the story to a dry-run for the later work.

On 17 March 2009 they showcased ten pages of art from the prelude to the series " The Wheel of Time: Eye of the World # 0-Dragonmount " on their website.

He started work on the prelude producing a three paragraph prose sketch that month, although he remained uncertain of the name, considering in turn Der Raub: Vorspiel ( The Theft: Prelude ), Der Raub des Rheingoldes ( The Theft of the Rhinegold ) and Das Rheingold ( Vorspiel ) ( The Rhinegold ( Prelude )).

The strongest attacks were that it was the prelude for a national political machine on behalf of Roosevelt.

Says David Broza: " The group of people that my grandfather joined saw the place as an opportunity to expand on the idea of finding peace within yourself as a prelude to bringing peace to the community and the region ".

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.

Ma has appeared in an episode of the animated children's television series, Arthur, as well as on The West Wing ( episode " Noël ", in which he performed the prelude to the Bach Cello Suite No. 1 at a Christmas dinner at the White House ), Sesame Street and Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.

Marcos claimed that martial law was the prelude to creating his Bagong Lipunan, a " New Society " based on new social and political values.

Napoleon interpreted the Russian efforts on his left as a prelude to an attack on Eylau from that quarter.

The persecution of the Roma by the Third Reich government began as early as 1936 when they began to be transferred to municipal internment camps on the outskirts of cities, a prelude to their deportation to extermination camps.

A prelude ( Vorgespiel ), on the Good Shepherd, precedes the play.

In 2013, Cilla Black will celebrate 50 years in show business ; as a prelude to this landmark anniversary, EMI ( the record label which launched her career in 1963 ) release on 23 April 2012 Completely Cilla: 1963-1973-a 5CD set containing 139 recordings ( all produced by George Martin ) and a bonus DVD of rare BBC TV music performances.

The only two points on which he departed from the orthodox Lutheran faith of his day were the requirement of regeneration as the sine qua non of the true theologian, and the expectation of the conversion of the Jews and the fall of Papacy as the prelude of the triumph of the church.

A long musical prelude as well as an overture preceded the film with Tiomkin conducting the studio orchestra ; this recording was later issued on LP and CD.

This could be a prelude to artificial intelligence networks on the Internet eventually leading to a powerful superintelligence via a technological singularity.

In January 2005, Jerry Springer-The Opera, a satirical musical / opera based upon The Jerry Springer Show, was broadcast on BBC Two, following a highly successful West End run for several years, and as a prelude to the show's UK Tour.