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How to pronounce postlude in English?

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Examples of postlude

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Herr's vision of Winchell's fate is a fitting postlude, balancing irony and sympathy.
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A prayer time will be held in the Valley Memorial Garden immediately following the postlude.
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Music, the Arts, and Ideas, second edition, with a new postlude.
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Hence the rightness of the subdued, wistfully melancholy fourth act, a sort of spacious postlude.
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Britten put this down to the opera's Christian postlude.
From the guardian.co.uk
Here her voice rose rapturously into the stratosphere, and Pikulski did ravishing things with the closing postlude.
From the guardian.co.uk
Muti being Muti, he didn't waltz in and out of the benefit, but stayed for the full event, including a musical postlude by the school's students.
From the suntimes.com
The elements earth, fire and water were counteracted by the relationships of father and son whilst the piece ends with an exciting postlude.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
The audience couldn't wait for the close of the orchestral postlude before bursting into applause at what was in fact the end of the act.
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More examples
  • A voluntary played at the end of a religious service
  • 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; To form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude
  • The music played as we leave the sanctuary following the service.
  • Anything played after another generally larger piece
  • This is a summarizing statement to the class reiterating what we have just covered. It also opens the opportunity for questions. It is primarily to bring closure to what we have just covered. It doesn't signal that we are moving to a completely different topic. ...
  • Final work - opposite of prelude
  • A final piece of a composition.