Vorspiel
advance
approach
asking price
avant-propos
bid
breakthrough
chamber
concert overture
curtain raiser
descant
disclosure
discovery
dramatic overture
exordium
feeler
foreword
front matter
frontispiece
innovation
introduction
invitation
leap
offer
offering
operatic overture
overtures
postulate
preamble
preface
prefix
prefixture
preliminary
preliminary approach
prelude
premise
presentation
presupposition
proem
proffer
prolegomena
prolegomenon
prolepsis
prologue
proposal
proposition
protasis
recess
inception
music
origin
origination
suggestion
overtured
overturing
overt
aria
assurance
concerto
declaration
duet
embassy
endeavors
errand
greet
interlude
intimacy
negotiation
opera
pledge
remonstrance
salutation
symphony
tenor
treaty
wish
coda