Rondeau

//ˈɹɑnˌdoʊ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.

    "Though we have the English rondels of Occleve and a set of rondeaus in the Rolliad (written by Dr. Lawrence, the friend of Burke, according to Mr. Edmund Gosse, who has given us an admirable essay upon exotic forms of verse), […]."

  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    A monophonic song with a two-part refrain.

    "Still should not reference perchance be made to the rondeaus [which?] C. P. E. Bach presented in his last sonata collection?"

  4. 4
    a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata wordnet
  5. 5
    Synonym of rondeau pan; a shallow pot or pan that can be used for braising.

Etymology

From Middle French rondeau, from Old French rondel. Doublet of rondo.

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