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Definition of Postlude
1. Noun. A voluntary played at the end of a religious service.
Definition of Postlude
1. n. A voluntary at the end of a service.
Definition of Postlude
1. Noun. (music) The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service. ¹
2. Noun. A concluding passage of text or speech; an epilogue or afterword. ¹
3. Verb. (rare) To form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Postlude
1. a closing musical piece [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postlude
Literary usage of Postlude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"... postlude Now that I have cooled to you Let there be gold of tarnished masonry.
Temples soothed by the sun to ruin That sleep utterly. ..."
2. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"... THE NEW POETRY postlude Now that I have cooled to you Let there be gold of
tarnished masonry, Temples soothed by the sun to ruin That sleep utterly. ..."
3. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"... sentence which precedes it, and by greater difference of style. Compare paragraph
45. The postlude is more common in larger forms, than in the Period. ..."
4. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"The postlude is more common in larger forms, than in the Period. It is most likely
to occur when the form began with a Prelude, and will, in that case, ..."
5. The Musical World (1866)
"postlude in D Minor. PRELUDE in G Minor. ALLEGRETTO PASTORALE ADAGIO in E ...
PRELUDE in G. ANDANTE in F. PRELUDE in E. postlude in D. PRELUDE in D Major. ..."
6. Yesterdays in a Busy Life by Candace Wheeler (1918)
"r XVI postlude [N spite of the fascinations of travel, I found myself, even during
the voyage homeward, eager to begin new experiments in textiles, ..."
7. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"postlude TO <EVANGELINE> STILL stands the forest primeval: but far away from its
shadow. Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping, ..."
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