postlude

[ pohst-lood ]

noun

, Music.

1. a concluding piece or movement.
2. a voluntary at the end of a church service.

postlude

/ ˈpəʊstluːd /

noun

1. music a final or concluding piece or movement
2. a voluntary played at the end of a Church service

Word History and Origins

Origin of postlude¹

1850–55; post- + -lude < Latin lūdus game, modeled on prelude

Word History and Origins

Origin of postlude¹

C19: from post- + -lude, from Latin lūdus game; compare prelude

Example Sentences

The nonsensical dream has another postlude in which a bird utters a merry call and takes away the lizard in his beak.

From Project Gutenberg

Later he wrote a new postlude, which is found among motivi for the Octet and the Trio in C minor.

From Project Gutenberg

That Brahms actually had some such intention in adding the postlude is in the personal knowledge of the present writer.

From Project Gutenberg

For postlude two measures from the cantabile of Chopin's "Funeral March" are used with droll effect.

From Project Gutenberg

Opening with a musical and lyrical prelude, this symphonic composition was to end with a postlude.

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Related Words

• afterword
• coda
• postscript
• summation