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postlude - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun music , an organ-piece at the end of a church service; a concluding voluntary: correlated with prelude and interlude.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Med.) A voluntary at the end of a service.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun music The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ ) at the end of a church service .noun epilogue or afterword .verb rare To form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From post- + Latin ludus ("play") (modelled on prelude ).
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Examples
Finally, in a "postlude " Sachs recalls his own boyhood discovery -- in Cleveland -- of Beethoven and touches on the composer's importance to him.
'The Ninth: Beethoven and the World of 1824,' by Harvey Sachs 2010
The organist then begins a short postlude as the congregants greet each other in the pews, laughing and offering hugs and hellos.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
But relax, because the ad ends with a sort of ethereal, euphoric postlude , making one feel as though Fimian will be descending on Fairfax on clouds and wearing a halo.
Connolly and Fimian: The art of ads hominem Paige Winfield Cunningham 2010
I think I actually snuck it in as a postlude once.
Mod squad Matthew Guerrieri 2009
Rodrigo arranged his own assassination, supplied a DVD postlude to the masses via YouTube & social media, begged his country, Enough Guatemala, Enough!
Kingdom of the blind Roberto C. Garcia 2011
That's it: from now on, every prelude and postlude gets listed in the church bulletin as "Abrogated Pedagogy." posted by Matthew @ 9: 56 AM
Archive 2009-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
It ends with a ravishingly beautiful orchestral postlude as Junior, Dinah's mentally ill adult son, embraces her casket.
Catching Up to Bernstein Heidi Waleson 2010
That's it: from now on, every prelude and postlude gets listed in the church bulletin as "Abrogated Pedagogy." posted by Matthew @ 9: 56 AM
Long since disrelished Matthew Guerrieri 2009
It was sufficiently exhilarating to maintain our interest in the postlude performance of the original final movement, which Saint-Saëns scrapped on the frank advice of his mother.
Steven Isserlis – review Guy Dammann 2010
Bookending the opera proper had been a prologue and postlude by actor Malcolm McDowell.
Rodney Punt: Amahl and the Night Visitors From Intimate Opera of Pasadena Rodney Punt 2010
Gammerstang commented on the word postlude
(noun) - A concluding piece or movement played at the end of an oratorio or the like; formed on post, and ludus, play, on analogy of prelude, interlude.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1909
January 17, 2018