Postlude is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 392 anagrams from letters in postlude (delopstu).
1850-55; post- + -lude Latin lūdus game, modeled on prelude
The postlude is orchestral, with the chorus speaking above the music.
Opening with a musical and lyrical prelude, this symphonic composition was to end with a postlude.
For postlude two measures from the cantabile of Chopin's "Funeral March" are used with droll effect.
A postlude to a wedding-march and a prelude to a funeral ditto.
That Brahms actually had some such intention in adding the postlude is in the personal knowledge of the present writer.
A postlude to the day's funeral march; a prelude to freedom.
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