Richard Pennycuick wrote:

>I've just acquired a collection of orchestral music by Pizzetti on Hyperion
>and am intrigued by one title, Preludio a un altro giorno. I don't know
>much about Italian, but I take it to mean Prelude to Another Day.  This
>seems a very prosaic title, and I wondered if there might be some more
>idiomatic meaning.  Help, please.

You got it straight. No idiomatic meaning.

Roberto Strappafelci