rondeau
Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting of 13 or 10 lines on two rhymes and having the opening words or phrase used in two places as an unrhymed refrain.
a 13th-century monophonic song form consisting of two phrases, each repeated several times, and occurring in the 14th and 15th centuries in polyphonic settings.
a 17th-century musical form consisting of a refrain alternating with contrasting couplets, developing in the 18th century into the sonata-rondo form.
Origin of rondeau
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How to use rondeau in a sentence
In this rondeau a la Mazur the individuality of Chopin and with it his nationality begin to reveal themselves unmistakably.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksThe rondeau was revived in great splendour in the middle of the seventeenth century.
It begins, like the rondeau Redoublé, with a quatrain, here called the texte;—this is usually a quotation from a former poet.
The Rondel is merely the old form of the word rondeau; like oisel for oiseau, chastel for chateau so rondel has become rondeau.
The rondeau after Voiture's model is without doubt the most popular variety of the form now in use.
British Dictionary definitions for rondeau
/ (ˈrɒndəʊ) /
a poem consisting of 13 or 10 lines with two rhymes and having the opening words of the first line used as an unrhymed refrain: See also roundel
Origin of rondeau
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