postlude

Example Sentences

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Minsky, who died in 2016, explored all these fascinations in his writings — notably 1981’s “Music, Mind and Meaning,” for which Machover recently wrote a postlude.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2023

Terror turns to mere sadness as a muted ensemble of bassoon and three contrabass clarinets — a feature of Eastman’s idiosyncratic, extravagant orchestration — offers a stunned postlude.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2022

His inconclusive conclusion is unusually but perhaps brilliantly relegated to a compact postlude, after readers’ received notions have been alternately reinforced and undermined but certainly overwhelmed.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2020

At the worship services, he usually plays the prelude, an offertory and the postlude, as well as accompaniments to congregational singing.

From Washington Times • May 13, 2018

They sat through the service and listened to the Bath minister’s breathy sermon from Galatians, and when the last chords of Lillian Woodward’s postlude finished, they stood up.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt