English-Spanish translations for prelude

preludioLa guerra es la guerra, pero el preludio de la guerra no es la guerra. War is war, but the prelude to war is not war. Cabe esperar, por lo tanto, que aumenten las tensiones, de las cuales nuestro debate de hoy es solo un preludio. You can therefore expect an increase in tensions, to which our debates today are only a prelude. Ha sido un preludio útil de la cumbre entre la Unión Europea y Rusia prevista para el mes que viene. It was a useful prelude to the summit between the European Union and Russia scheduled for next month.
antesalaLa Unión Europea se prepara para emprender en el año 2003 la revisión de la PAC, que podría ser la antesala, de una reforma más profunda prevista para el año 2006. The European Union is preparing to undertake a review of the CAP in 2003, which could be the prelude to a more in-depth reform planned for 2006. Creo que la CIG experimentará su primer fracaso incluso antes de que pueda considerar las cuestiones que tiene en el orden del día, y puede que este fracaso sea la antesala de un fracaso total. I think that the IGC will suffer a first failure before it can even consider the issues on its agenda, and this failure might be a prelude to a total failure.

An introductory or preliminary performance or event
A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece.
A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program
To introduce something, as a prelude

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