Apiece of music played as an introduction to the main piece is called a

The correct answer is: a PRELUDE

A prelude is a musical composition that is usually brief. It is characterized by being played as an introduction to a larger musical piece. It comes from the latin "praeludere" which means "to play before". In the beginning it was played as a necessity as musicians needed to warm up and test their tunning and the acoustics of the place, so they improvised these preludes before starting the main pieces. As time passed by, this tradition became part of the ritual of music and was included in the composition process.

dependent clause!

example: "before the food gets cold"

the bundle of the sticks, talks about union and how sometimes people need a different point of view. when the father in this story asked his sons to break the bunch of sticks, they could not, but when they grabbed one stick each, it was easier for them to break, because they worked together.

in hofus the stonecutter shows a simple happy working man, but one day when he delivers a load of stone into the house of a rich man, he wishes to be a rich man as well and so the mountain spirit grants him that wish and many others, until he realizes that even getting all his desires and wishes come true, he just needed to be humble and have genuine reason to live and be a better man each day.