different between prelude vs postlude

English

Alternative forms

• prælude (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French prélude (“singing to test a musical instrument”), from Medieval Latin preludium, from Latin prael?dere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??l(j)u?d/, /?p?e?l(j)u?d/, /?p?i?lu?d/

Noun

prelude (plural preludes)

1. An introductory or preliminary performance or event.

   Synonym: preface

2. (music) A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece. [from 1650s]

   Synonyms: intrada, overture

3. (programming) A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
   • 2018, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, No Starch Press (?ISBN), page 232:

     In the same way that Rust has a general prelude that brings certain types and functions into scope automatically, the std::io module has its own prelude of common types and functions you'll need when working with I/O.

4. (figuratively) A forerunner to anything.

Synonyms

• forestory

Translations

Verb

prelude (third-person singular simple present preludes, present participle preluding, simple past and past participle preluded)

1. To introduce something, as a prelude.
2. To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
   • 1829, Francis Jeffrey, "Heman's Poems", in The Edinburgh Review October 1829

     We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.

References

Italian

Verb

prelude

1. third-person singular present indicative of preludere

Anagrams

• puledre

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.