Scrabble?! PRELUDE

Definitions of PRELUDE in various dictionaries:

noun - something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows

noun - music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera

verb - serve as a prelude or opening to

verb - play as a prelude

An introductory performance, event, or action preceding a more important one; a preliminary or preface.

An independent piece written for piano and usually based on a single, short thematic motif.

Music.

An independent, relatively long piece that precedes a fugue.

The first or opening section of a suite.

The overture to an oratorio, opera, or act of an opera.

A piece played before a church service; an introductory voluntary.

A relatively short composition of the 15th and early 16th centuries written in a free style, usually for piano.

To serve as a prelude to.

To serve as a prelude or an introduction.

verb - to play a musical introduction