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chorale prelude

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chorale prelude
n.
A composition usually for organ, chiefly in baroque style and characterized by an elaborate contrapuntal structure based on the melody of a hymn or chorale.
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Noun1.chorale prelude - a composition for organ using a chorale as a basis for variations
prelude - music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera


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Unlike numerous other hymn preludes on the communion hymn "Picardy" ("Let all mortal flesh keep silence"), which play upon the modal and chant-like character of the tune, White casts it as a gently rocking neo-baroque chorale prelude with a lovely counter-melody preparing the way for the hymn.
THE LEGENDARY BUSONI RECORDINGS: This reissue of works by Paul Jacobs, one of the first out classical artists to die of AIDS, offers Busoni's "Six Sonatinas"; piano etudes of Bartok, Busoni, Messiaen, and Stravinsky; and organ chorale preludes of Bach and Brahms (arranged by Busoni).
 
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