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postlude
[ pohst-lood ]
noun
- 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
Origin of postlude1
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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.
Later he wrote a new postlude, which is found among motivi for the Octet and the Trio in C minor.
That Brahms actually had some such intention in adding the postlude is in the personal knowledge of the present writer.
For postlude two measures from the cantabile of Chopin's "Funeral March" are used with droll effect.
Opening with a musical and lyrical prelude, this symphonic composition was to end with a postlude.
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