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postlude

/pohst-lood/US // ˈpoʊst lud //UK // (ˈpəʊstluːd) //

后奏曲,后奏,后奏乐,后序曲

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Music.

    • : a concluding piece or movement.
    • : a voluntary at the end of a church service.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The nonsensical dream has another postlude in which a bird utters a merry call and takes away the lizard in his beak.

  • Later he wrote a new postlude, which is found among motivi for the Octet and the Trio in C minor.

  • That Brahms actually had some such intention in adding the postlude is in the personal knowledge of the present writer.

  • For postlude two measures from the cantabile of Chopin's "Funeral March" are used with droll effect.

  • Opening with a musical and lyrical prelude, this symphonic composition was to end with a postlude.