postlude

[ UK /pˈə‍ʊstluːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a voluntary played at the end of a religious service
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How To Use postlude In A Sentence

  • I think I actually snuck it in as a postlude once. Mod squad
  • In her postlude to the book, she added, ‘Out of that struggle to find himself he created art that made an enormous contribution to theater and dance almost worldwide.’
  • 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
  • The organist then begins a short postlude as the congregants greet each other in the pews, laughing and offering hugs and hellos. American Grace
  • Appendix E, p. 150, for an example.) [Transcriber's Note: Corrected misspelling "Ribbatua" in original.] _Ritornello, ritornelle_ -- a short instrumental prelude, interlude, or postlude, in a vocal composition, as _e. g._, in an operatic aria or chorus. Music Notation and Terminology
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • It ends with a ravishingly beautiful orchestral postlude as Junior, Dinah's mentally ill adult son, embraces her casket. Catching Up to Bernstein
  • Preludes, offertories, anthems, postludes - these and their like are not essential to worship.
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