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View synonyms for postlude
postlude
[ pohst-lood ]
noun
, Music.
- a concluding piece or movement.
- a voluntary at the end of a church service.
postlude
/ ˈpəʊstluːd /
noun
- music a final or concluding piece or movement
- a voluntary played at the end of a Church service
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of postlude1
C19: from post- + -lude, from Latin lūdus game; compare prelude
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Example Sentences
The nonsensical dream has another postlude in which a bird utters a merry call and takes away the lizard in his beak.
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Later he wrote a new postlude, which is found among motivi for the Octet and the Trio in C minor.
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That Brahms actually had some such intention in adding the postlude is in the personal knowledge of the present writer.
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For postlude two measures from the cantabile of Chopin's "Funeral March" are used with droll effect.
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Opening with a musical and lyrical prelude, this symphonic composition was to end with a postlude.
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