Postlude

Word POSTLUDE
Character 8
Hyphenation post lude
Pronunciations /ˈpəʊstluːd/

Definitions and meanings of "Postlude"

What do we mean by postlude?

An organ voluntary played at the end of a church service. noun

A concluding piece. noun

A final chapter or phase. noun

In music, an organ-piece at the end of a church service; a concluding voluntary: correlated with prelude and interlude. noun

A voluntary at the end of a service. noun

The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service. noun

A concluding passage of text or speech; an epilogue or afterword. noun

To form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude. verb

A voluntary played at the end of a religious service noun

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.

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The word "postlude" in example sentences

Finally, in a "postlude" Sachs recalls his own boyhood discovery -- in Cleveland -- of Beethoven and touches on the composer's importance to him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The organist then begins a short postlude as the congregants greet each other in the pews, laughing and offering hugs and hellos. ❋ 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. ❋ Paige Winfield Cunningham (2010)

I think I actually snuck it in as a postlude once. ❋ 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! ❋ 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 ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

It ends with a ravishingly beautiful orchestral postlude as Junior, Dinah's mentally ill adult son, embraces her casket. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2010)

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. ❋ Guy Dammann (2010)

Bookending the opera proper had been a prologue and postlude by actor Malcolm McDowell. ❋ Rodney Punt (2010)

I'm afraid I see the Heene family's behavior not as an "extreme" of exhibitionist/stage-parent tendencies as the "postlude" to the question suggests, but as something qualitatively different and morally out of bounds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We omit the Taedet here not least because its style is very different from that of the Requiem proper, but include the Versa est in luctum as a postlude. ❋ Lu (2009)

So it seems to me likely that the time from John Paul's election up through Benedict's pontificate will be seen as a single era, with Benedict's time in office as an epilogue or postlude to John Paul's. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And there'as a lovely, almost serene orchestral postlude to the suicide that is Janacek's comment on the moment. ❋ Will (2007)

The tears start to rise during the forester's aria, really get going at the little miracle of the frog and forester understanding each other, then during the brass postlude I can hardly see the stage. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2007)

Please be seated while the postlude is played and the president and platform party exit. ❋ Unknown (2007)

ROBERTS: Now that President Bush has left the Cassell Coliseum, and we're -- we're in the postlude here being given by the Highty-Tighties, which is the cadet band from Virginia Tech, founded -- I believe 1883 was the year. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As we mark the penitential weeks of Lent, we celebrate the liturgy of this Sunday with a more joyous tone, including prelude and postlude music, and presidential prayers which include images articulating the "joyful season of Lent." ❋ Unknown (2006)

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