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Rondeau

Rondeau Meaning & Definition
Rondeau Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Rondeau?

[n] a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
[n] a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata

Synonyms | Synonyms for Rondeau: rondel | rondo

Related Terms | Find terms related to Rondeau:

See Also | classical music | poem | rondelet | roundel | serious music | verse form

Rondeau In Webster's Dictionary

\Ron*deau"\, n. [F. See {Roundel}.] [Written also {rondo}.] 1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule. Note: When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain. --Encyc. Brit. 2. (Mus.) See {Rondo}, 1.

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