postlude

[pohst-lood]

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noun Music.

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

Origin of postlude

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

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The postlude is orchestral, with the chorus speaking above the music.
Contemporary American Composers
Rupert Hughes
A postlude to a wedding-march and a prelude to a funeral ditto.
The Roycroft Dictionary
Elbert Hubbard
A postlude to the day's funeral march; a prelude to freedom.
The Roycroft Dictionary
Elbert Hubbard
Opening with a musical and lyrical prelude, this symphonic composition was to end with a postlude.
Romain Rolland
Stefan Zweig
For postlude two measures from the cantabile of Chopin's "Funeral March" are used with droll effect.
Contemporary American Composers
Rupert Hughes

British Dictionary definitions for postlude

postlude

noun

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

Word Origin for postlude

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

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Word Origin and History for postlude

1821, from post- + ending abstracted from prelude.

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