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Definition of Rondeau
1. Noun. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
2. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Poem, Verse Form
Specialized synonyms: Roundel, Rondelet
Derivative terms: Rondelet
Definition of Rondeau
1. n. 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.
Definition of Rondeau
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. A monophonic song with a 2-part refrain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rondeau
1. a short poem of fixed form [n -DEAUX]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rondeau
Literary usage of Rondeau
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orthometry: A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of by Robert Frederick Brewer (1893)
"rondeau. You bid me try, Blue-eyes, to write A rondeau. What! forthwith ? ...
The rondeau—tasteful, light— You bid me try ! " " WITHOUT ONE KISS. ..."
2. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"THE OLD-FASHIONED rondeau, AND THE 7-PART FORM. 1 O8a. ... Thus, the old-fashioned
rondeau often embraced three and even more different, but kindred, ..."
3. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"The rondeau and Rondel are closely related types,—the two words being different
forms of the same original, now used for convenience The rondeau and with ..."
4. A Whimsey Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1906)
"THE rondeau Reflect? Some skill I have, 'tis true; But thirteen lines! ...
YOU bid me try, Blue-eyes, to write A rondeau. What! forthwith?—to-night? ..."
5. A Whimsey Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1906)
"THE rondeau Reflect? Some skill I have, 'tis true; But thirteen lines! ...
YOU bid me try, Blue-eyes, to write A rondeau. What! forthwith ?—to-night ? ..."
6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"AC rondeau. A French name for a short I>oem of six or eight lines, ... G. RONDO (Fr.
rondeau). A piece of music ha\-ing one principal subject, ..."
7. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"rondeau, MINISTER FROM GREAT BRITAIN AT THE COURT OF ST. PETERSBURG. A WAR having
broken out in 1734 between Ruffia and Turkey, which had been carried on ..."
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