rondo
Americannoun
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rondos
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of rondo
1790–1800; < Italian < French rondeau; see rondel
Vocabulary lists containing rondo
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Further south, in County Waterford, David Dennison started his Viking Winery in 2009, planting 30 vines of rondo.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
A bulldozer of a scherzo intensified what was a lingering menace, and the fourth movement rondo released it from its cage.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
In training at Alavés, when Bojan and Munir El Haddadi are put in the same rondo, the club captain shouts: “Look out, there are four Champions Leagues in here,” Bojan says with a grin.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2018
Moment after moment in this 1816 work captivated me: filigreed melodies that hint of Italian opera, brilliantly rippling passagework, feisty bursts that interrupt a cagily gracious rondo.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2017
It is unsophisticated, employs no big forms and no big architectural structures, and it uses small sequence forms, ostinato and rondo.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Patiently, her brushes yielded minimalist geometric configurations, like visual haiku, in stark black-and-white and later in radiant colors: triangles and trapezoids, curvaceous shells, rondos and diamonds floating in a pristine white-canvas universe.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2022
Conforming to the composer-virtuoso model of the day, Farrenc’s early piano pieces were rondos or sets of variations on popular and operatic tunes, but they were far from the ostentatious, flimsy norm.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
Bach and Mozart Redux Con Gioia artistic director Preethi de Silva gives a solo recital of rondos and fantasias played on a replica 18th-century Viennese-style fortepiano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2019
Bach and Mozart Redux Con Gioia artistic director Preethi de Silva gives a solo recital featuring rondos and fantasias played on a replica 18th-century Viennese-style fortepiano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
The violin is constantly played in the smallest village, and the young people dance old-fashioned cotillons or danses rondos.
From Canada by Sir John George Bourinot
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