About The Word Rondeau
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Rondeau
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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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