What does postlude mean?
Postlude means (music) The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service..
Postlude
/ˈpəʊstluːd/ · noun
Meaning
(music) The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service..
Definitions by Sense
- (music) The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service.
- A concluding passage of text or speech; an epilogue or afterword.
- (rare) To form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude.
Example Sentences
In the Sibelian world of song, then, postludes would inevitably sound redundant or extraneous.
This was Nabokov’s postlude to Lolita, where he relates the book’s genesis.
Mercifully never preceded by a drum-roll or postluded by a curtsey for applause, each poem seemed to arise from the surrounding prose, which Courtenay was successfully endeavouring to make sound as if it was being thought up on the spot.
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Word Forms
- postludes
- postluding
- postluded
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In the Sibelian world of song, then, postludes would inevitably sound redundant or extraneous.
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