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Definition of Rondo
1. Noun. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
Definition of Rondo
1. n. A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
Definition of Rondo
1. Noun. (music) A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. ¹
2. Noun. A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy. ¹
3. Noun. (plants) A dark-skinned, hybrid grape officially of the species ''Vitis vinifera'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rondo
1. a type of musical composition [n -DOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rondo
Literary usage of Rondo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Larger Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Explanation of the by Percy Goetschius (1915)
"THE FIRST rondo FORM. 71. The diagram of the First rondo form is as follows: ...
The character of the rondo Theme is optional; it may proceed from any mood, ..."
2. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1867)
"Such a composition \з the simplest form of the rondo; which derives its name ...
A rondo of the first form consists merely of a theme of say two or three ..."
3. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"The etymology of the word gives sufficient clue to the shape of the form; for "
rondo" simply means " round " in English, and it is so called because the ..."
4. The Larger Forms of Musical Composition by Percy Goetschius (1915)
"The final da capo, in the Second rondo form, is generally a complete ... 3, last
movement: In this rondo, the Principal Theme undergoes a curious ..."
5. Dwight's Journal of Music by John Sullivan Dwight (1867)
"A rondo of the first form consists merely of a theme of say two or three periods,
... We find an example of this kind of rondo in "Zwei leichte Sonatinen, ..."
6. Lessons in Music Form: A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors by Percy Goetschius (1904)
"THE THIRD rondo-FORM. IN this form of composition there are three ... That is,
there are here again only two Subordinate themes (as in the Second rondo- ..."
7. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"rondo. Grand March March and Military rondo. 3 Polonaises. Harp and PF. ...
Also ' M.in-la e rondo Pastorale ' No. 1. 9 var. sur le Terzetto. ..."
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