preluder

See also: préluder

English

Etymology

prelude +‎ -er

Noun

preluder (plural preluders)

  1. One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude.
    • 1795, William Mason, Essays, Historical and Critical, on English Church Music:
      Of these musical set forms however he might be indulged with a considerable quantity, and, if he approached in some degree to Rousseau's high character of a Preluder, he might be allowed to discant on certain single grave texts
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