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rondeau::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rondo |
| Type of | classical music, serious music, classical |
rondeau::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rondel |
| Type of | poem, verse form |
| Has types | rondelet, roundel |
| Derivation | rondelet |
Examples of rondeau
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Rondeau spent years urging the government to sell the parcels to religious groups.
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This he followed by English versions of the rondel, rondeau and villanelle.
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Rondeau notes that socially isolated folks are inclined to print.
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Of the formes fixes, the rondeau retained its popularity longest.
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Typically he used the rondeau form when writing love songs.
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Rondeau, who is her grandson, also was wounded.
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Rondeau, who has been mayor since 1998.
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Rondeau, 45, a practicing Catholic who favors flashy suits and whose views on secularism differ sharply from those of most public servants.
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Rondeau, 44, joined Furniture Row in the offseason from Richard Petty Motorsports, where he had served as director of research and development from 2005-09.
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- Rondo: a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
- 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
- The rondeau (French; plural form rondeaux) was a Medieval and early Renaissance musical form, based on the contemporary popular poetic rondeau form. It is distinct from the 18th century rondo, though the terms are likely related. ...
- A rondeau (plural rondeaux) is a form of French poetry with 15 lines written on two rhymes, as well as a corresponding musical form developed to set this characteristic verse structure. ...
- The most long-lasting of the French formes-fixes, cultivated in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries; it has the form A B a A a b A B, where a capital letter designates a refrain text and lower case designates new text. ...
- A French musical term used during the Baroque era to describe a musical composition with a main section or theme which alternates with subsidiary sections or themes. This musical form was later expanded during the Classical era to become the musical form Rondo.
- A fixed form used mostly in light or witty verse, usually consisting of fifteen octo- or decasyllabic lines in three stanzas, with only two rhymes used throughout. ...
- A medieval French ancient poem of 13 to 15 octosyllabic lines, in three stanzas, with the first two lines serving as the refrain. Learn more about Rondeau.
- (French, "little circle"): A short poem consisting of ten, thirteen, or fifteen lines using only two rhymes which concludes each section with an abbreviated line that serves as a refrain. We can see an example of the rondeau in the following poem from Austin Dobson's With Pipe and Flute:
