Music vs. Postlude — What's the Difference?

Music is the art of arranging sounds in time to produce a composition through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is one of the universal cultural aspects of all human societies.

An organ voluntary played at the end of a church service.

The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.

A concluding piece.

Vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm.

A final chapter or phase.

A musical composition.

(music) The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service.

The written or printed score for such a composition.

A concluding passage of text or speech; an epilogue or afterword.

Such scores considered as a group

(rare) To form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude.

A musical accompaniment.

A voluntary at the end of a service.

A particular category or kind of music.

An aesthetically pleasing or harmonious sound or combination of sounds

A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of melody, harmony, tempo, rhythm etc. usually to convey a mood.

(figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.

An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes singing.

A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.

Electronic signal jamming.

Heated argument.

Fun; amusement.

(transitive) To seduce or entice with music.

The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.

Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.

The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.

Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.

A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.

An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner

Any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds;

Musical activity (singing or whistling etc.);

(music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)

Punishment for one's actions;