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postlude

[ UK /pˈə‍ʊstluːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a voluntary played at the end of a religious service

How To Use postlude In A Sentence

  • 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
  • They make an odd postlude to Bach and Brahms, however.
  • Bloom informs us that he wrote the monograph as a postlude to ‘Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human’.
  • The Vocalise, which was not on Previn's recording, comes as a quiet postlude to the Second's drama.
  • Preludes, offertories, anthems, postludes - these and their like are not essential to worship.
  • This is a good choice for groups who do prelude or postlude music at church services or other functions.
  • The last four measures are codetta, or postlude, and corroborate the prélude. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition
  • This work consists of a collection of 7 chorales with preludes and postludes with which the organist can make his contribution to all the liturgical parts of the religious service.
  • While some composers have excelled at writing preludes, Silvestrov has become the master of the postlude.
  • The last bar of the orchestral ritornel must be played a good deal ritardando, so as to make the tempo of this postlude even more majestic where the trumpets enter, by which means also the violins will be enabled to bring out the lively staccato figures strongly and clearly. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
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