different between postlude vs interlude

English

Etymology

From post- +? Latin ludus (“play”) (modelled on prelude).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??stlu?d/

Noun

postlude (plural postludes)

1. (music) The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service.
2. A concluding passage of text or speech; an epilogue or afterword.

Translations

Verb

postlude (third-person singular simple present postludes, present participle postluding, simple past and past participle postluded)

1. (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.

Further reading

• Postlude in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.

English

Etymology

Latin inter- (“between”) + ludo (“to play”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt?(?)lu?d/, /??nt?(?)lju?d/

Noun

interlude (plural interludes)

1. An intervening episode, etc.
2. An entertainment between the acts of a play.
3. (music) A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition.

Translations

Verb

interlude (third-person singular simple present interludes, present participle interluding, simple past and past participle interluded)

1. (transitive) To provide with an interlude.

See also

• intermezzo
• intermission
• station break