preludis

Updated: January 4, 2026

Chappell quotes also, in illustration of the familiar knowledge of this tune and its name in Addison's time, from 'the History of Robert Powell, the Puppet Showman , that "upon the Preludis being ended, each party fell to bawling and calling for particular tunes.

Joseph Addison - The Spectator, Volume 1: Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays