Prelude vs Postlude - What's the difference?
prelude | postlude |
An introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface.
(music) A short piece of music that acts as an introduction to a longer piece.
To introduce something, as a prelude.
To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Jeffrey
(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.
* 2003 , Clive James, ‘Larkin Treads the Boards’, The Meaning of Recognition , Picador 2005, p. 95:
As verbs the difference between prelude and postlude
is that prelude is while postlude is (rare) to form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude.As a noun postlude is
(music) the final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service.prelude
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(prelud)- The musicians preluded on their instruments.
- We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.
References
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(postlud)- 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.