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Prelude vs Postlude - What's the difference?

prelude | postlude |

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

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface.
  • (music) A short piece of music that acts as an introduction to a longer piece.

    • Verb

    (prelud)
  • To introduce something, as a prelude.
  • To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The musicians preluded on their instruments.
  • * Jeffrey
    • We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.

    References

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    postlude

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Verb

    (postlud)
  • (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:
    • 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.